[Green-Activist] Very good ! LETTER TO THE EDITOR : URANIUM

[Anne Goddard]

great stuff Keith, I hope you are published everywhere!
Thank you :-)
a

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Jaffray" <kdjaffray at hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 6:47 PM
Subject: [TS-07discussion] LETTER TO THE EDITOR : URANIUM


Dear Sir,
Flat earthers, climate change sceptics, coconut heads and mercenary ghouls
are singing the praises of expanding the uranium industry..........
It's time for us to wake up and raise our individual and collective
conscience.

Cetainly there are some beneficial uses of radiation such as for xrays
and anti cancer therapy.However,expanding the uranium industry to cater
to a world greedy for electricity is frought with great danger.

Most people are not aware that "enriched uranium" creams off only 3% of
the uranium from uranium ore for power generation....the rest (97%) is
radioactive waste and is called "depleted uranium" or "d.u.".This is a
misnoma.

Depleted uranium has a half life of 4.5 billion years and any
form of life exposed to this waste is facing a catostropic future.

Human beings develope the most horrific illnesses, tumours, chromosome
damage, birth deformaties and ultimately death. D.U. happens to be twice
the weight of lead and in a novel approach the producers of "enriched
uranium" have found a convenient way of disposing of the "waste" (depleted
uranium) by giving it to armaments manufacturers! It is now being used
for armour plating in tanks and as a replacement for lead in
bullets, missiles and war heads.

U.S.A. military forces have been using D.U.weapons extensively in Iraq
since the 1st Gulf War. Over 300,000 U.S.A. service personnel are on
permanent dissability pensions having developed "Gulf War Syndrome" after
being exposed to their own uranium dust on the battlefield. 11,000 of
those service personnel have since died from this "syndrome", not to
mention the thousands of innocent Iraqis who have been contaminated by
this weapon of mass destruction declared illegal by the United Nations.

Take a look at the photographic exhibition "Children of the Gulf War"
when it is displayed at a venue near you. Show some sympathy to our own
Australian service personnel who have been exposed to this evil poison
(see "The Courier Mail" March 28th,2007).

The Australian Defence Forces purchased and used 43,000 rounds of
D.U. amunition over a period of 10 years in training exercises. How many
Ausralian defence personnel and civilians have been exposed to this
radioactve poison? Is this "Agent Orange" all over again? These are
serious questions only capable of being answered by a Commonwealth
Commission of Inquirey.

Greedy,short sighted armaments manufacturers cannot be trusted to deal
with D.U..
Say "NO" to uranium mining - leave it in the ground.

Yours Sincerely,
Keith Jaffray
(address & ph no. snipped)

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