- The, or a possible, cause of what's being called "World
Trade Center Syndrome" might be from the DU (depleted uranium) on
the Sept. 11 jets that may have caught fire (probably).
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- Has anyone done and/or is anyone interested in getting
out their Radalert or other rad monitoring device and measuring and testing
radiation levels at:
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- 1. Near The Former World Trade Center (in Manhattan or
any of the other four NYC boroughs and Northern New Jersey)
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- 2. Near The Pentagon
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- 3. At or Near Shanksville, Pennsylvania where Flight
93 crashed? ___
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- From Leuren Moret
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- On Sept. 11, I called a medical doctor who lives 7 miles
from the Pentagon and warned her that DU could have burned in the hijacked
jets that crashed (up to 3000 pounds were used in 747's). She turned on
her gamma meter - radiation levels were 8 times higher than normal inside
her house. She informed the Nuclear Information ResourceService in Washington
DC (202 328-0002), and the EPA, FBI, HazMat and other emergency response
agencies went to the Pentagon to investigate.
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- A pile of rubble from the crash was radioactive, but
the EPA rep said "Oh... it's probably depleted uranium... it's not
a health hazard unless you breathe it". Firefighters, Pentagon personel,
and communities nearby DID BREATHE IT.
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- There was no followup investigation, and what about the
World Trade Center in NY? Radiation almost never gets into the media.
It is a taboo subject. ___
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- From Dr. H. D. Sharma (Physicist)
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- It does not matter whether the planes that hit the World-Trade
Towers and the Pentagon have DU or not, as long as DU does not catch fire.
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- If DU catches fire -- and most likely it will -- just
like in the case of the El-Al plane that crashed and burned outside Amsterdam,
it will form aerosols of uranium dioxide. Inhalation of the aerosols can
be harmful to human health depending on the quantity inhaled.
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- The presence of aerosols can be checked with the help
of a simple radiation survey meter. Such meters are readily available and
the site near the Towers should be checked for gamma-ray emitters as soon
as possible. If you do not see any radiation from radioisotopes of thorium-234
and protoactinium-234, you are fairly certain that no DU has become airborne
and it is unlikely to be harmful to human health.
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