Lycos News: Turkey Says Seized Substance Not Uranium["primarily youranuom" on capsule]

[Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

Radsafe:

If not posted earlier, see link below. The article has a link to a photo of the capsule showing it to be 

labeled: "primarily youranuom". Hmmm.



Stewart Farber

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Excerpt:

"Scientists at Turkey's Nuclear Research and Training Center on the outskirts of Istanbul said on Tuesday 

the substance was not uranium and was not radioactive.



"It is a powder of zinc, manganese, iron and zirconium," Guler Koksal, director of the research facility 

told Reuters. "It is not radioactive, it is not chemical and it is not explosive."



Suspicions had been aroused by the words "primarily youranuom" written on the outside of the metal tube 

in which the sandy powder was stored in a glass vial.



"It doesn't mean anything," Koksal said, calling it "a very big mistake" for officials to have declared 

the substance weapons- grade uranium without proper checks."





Thankfully, this story can be filed under Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing" subfile. There's also a 

link to a photo of a capsule labeled 





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Lycos News Story: Turkey Says Seized Substance Not Uranium



http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=RelatedStories&pitem=NEWS-TURKEY-URANIUM-DC&rev=20021001

&pub_tag=REUTG&relatedTo=534509&rsNum=2&from=email



     ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish scientists said on Tuesday the

substance at the center of a nuclear weapons scare was not

uranium and that the material seized in the south of the

country posed no threat.

 

     Turkish police said over the weekend ...



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