Lawrence Livermore wants to "release" 450 lbs. of depleted uranium near Tracy

[kineneb]

file under heading: "the enemy is already here"

http://tracypress.com/content/view/8695/2/

Proposed explosives tests upwind from Tracy will release as much as 450 pounds of radioactive depleted uranium dust into the air every year, according to an air pollution permit application filed Friday by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The blasts will annually release other elements into the air, some of which will also be radioactive, the application reads.

A permit allowing the blasts was approved with no public scrutiny by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District in November, but was withdrawn after a community backlash.

Regulators in March instructed the weapons lab to reapply for the permit and to provide data that would allow it to analyze the health effects of radiation that would be released by the blasts.

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[marmar]

1. WTF is wrong with people? Do these maniacs get off on blowing shit up?

Damn you Oppenheimer and your "deadly toy."

[senseandsensibility]

2. kick

I hope more people respond to this.

[magellan]

3. Out-effin-rageous

The regulators should tell these idiots to test depleted uranium dust in their kids' sandbox first, then get back to them.

K&R

[kineneb]

4. kicking for the morning folk n/t

[SidDithers]

5. "radioactive depleted uranium"...

is a bit of an oxymoron. The article should instead talk about toxic depleted uranium.

Sid