[ RadSafe ] Fw: [DU-WATCH] Re: " ... dose rates in the pits decreased considerably day by day."

[Roger Helbig]

What do you think this person actually was measuring since it was not depleted uranium?

--- henk van der keur <henk.vdkeur at antenna.nl> wrote:

> To: "Robert Rands" <rrands at bigpond.net.au>
> CC: du-watch at yahoogroups.com
> From: "henk van der keur" <henk.vdkeur at antenna.nl>
> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:03:27 +0200
> Subject: [DU-WATCH] Re: " ... dose rates in the pits
> decreased considerably day by day."
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> I wish I could provide you details, but I can't. 
> I can only speculate, therefore, as a plausible
> explanation, I referred to the 
> ashes in the pits. Probably more and more ash was
> blown by the wind and 
> therefore the dose rates decreased.
> 
> Henk

> On 15 Oct 2006 at 22:44, R Rands wrote:

> > Hi Henk,
> > I don't understand why dose rates from uranium
> isotopes would decrease 
> > considerably day by day.  What further details can
> be provided?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Robert
> > 
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > 
> > 4. Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions used in
> Lebanon?
> >     Posted by: "Henk van der Keur"
> henk.vdkeur at antenna.nl henk2003laka
> >     Date: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:07 am (PDT)
> > (snip)
> > 
> > "On September 25 I visited Dr. Kobeissi in
> Nabatiyeh. He told that he
> > tested some deep pits made by Israeli weapons with
> a geiger counter
> > from a local scrap dealer and that his results
> indicated the presence
> > of uranium. He stressed that he has never said
> `depleted uranium' and
> > regretted the political bickerings between
> different sects. He
> > measured 50 nanosievert (nSv) per hour in the
> outside rim of the pits
> > and 300 nSv in the heart of most pits with the
> exception of one which
> > measured 800 nsV/h. He also declared that these
> dose rates in the pits
> >  On my suggestion that these higher
> > measures could be due to the concentration of
> uranium in the ash
> > (`concentrated background radiation from the burnt
> material') he
> > agreed that this possibility is highly likely."
> > 
> > (snip) 

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