[ RadSafe ] DU in Hawaii: I am shocked .... shocked!

[John Jacobus]

Fear has no prespective.

--- bobcherry at cox.net wrote:

> Honolulu Advertiser - Schofield uranium find prompts
> call for probe - Rod Ohira:
>
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060106/NEWS08/601060367/1018/NEWS
> 
> Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Uranium revelation upsets
> isle activists - Rosemarie Bernardo:
> http://starbulletin.com/2006/01/06/news/story06.html
> 
> KHNL8 - Depleted Uranium Found In Military Base On
> Oahu: 
> 
> KGMB9 - Depleted Uranium Found at Schofield:
> http://kgmb9.com/kgmb/display.cfm?storyID=6966
> 
> "The [15] tail assemblies are about 4 inches in
> length and an inch in diameter. Army officials said
> they are from subcomponent remnants from training
> rounds associated with an obsolete weapon system
> that was on Oahu in the 1960s."
> 
> "'These kinds of activities are a death sentence to
> our land and resources' said Vicky Holt Takamine of
> the Liliouokalani Coalition."
> 
> The mind boggles. "Death sentence" for a land
> subject to tsunamis and active volcanoes?
> Perspective, people!
> 
> Bob C
> 

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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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