“The GDA acceptance doesn’t allow for construction to proceed. That still requires site specific approvals, such as planning permission, environmental permits and nuclear site licences.”
“It asked the companies to address 31 concerns, the last of which was settled on Dec. 7, the watchdog said in a statement on its website yesterday. One of those concerns was added after the Fukushima disaster,” [only one? Arclight]
By Sally Bakewell on December 13, 2012
The U.K. nuclear regulator gave approval to a reactor design by Areva SA (AREVA) and Electricite de France SA, bringing EDF closer to its goal of expanding in England.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency permitted Areva’s U.K. European pressurized water reactor design for construction in Britain, according to a statement today on the ONR website.
The government wants to make building new nuclear stations more palatable for investors while reassuring consumers the industry is safe as it pushes low-carbon energy sources to meet growing demand. EDF, GDF Suez (GSZ) SA and Iberdrola SA (IBE) are among companies studying whether to build nuclear plants in Britain, which is seeking to replace an aging power station without adding to carbon emissions.
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From the comments on December 13 2012 said: (Article correction)
This is obvious when you look at how thorium works in a reactor: Thorium-232 + neutron -> Thorium-233 which beta decays to Protactinium-233 which then also beta decays to Uranium-233. U-233 is fissile and is what is fissioned to produce heat and more neutrons.
So, using Thorium does not change the fact that Uranium is still fissioning to produce heat.
Another thing, a reactor that is going to use Th to produce heat (through the reaction above) needs a load of fissile to produce neutrons to start the reaction above. Therefore, unless you use pure U-235 or U-233 with no U-238 to start the reactor, you will produce Pu [Plutonium]. Assuming an initial U-235/238 fissile load, you must reprocess the spent fuel and stick it in a fast reactor or you will still end up with long lived transuranics.
The benefits you attribute to thorium mainly arise when it is used in a Molten Salt Reactor with re-processing.”
By Joao Peixe | Wed, 12 December 2012
Norway is the biggest oil producer in Europe, and the 13th largest producer in the world, yet this fact does not stop it from pursing an alternative source of energy for producing electricity domestically.
That is not to say that it will dump fossil fuels, the energy switch that it is hoping to make is from uranium nuclear power plants, to thorium nuclear power plants.
Thor Energy will team up with the Norwegian government and Westinghouse of the US to begin a four year test which will determine whether or not thorium is a viable alternative to uranium. The test will occur at the government controlled nuclear reactor in Halden.
For decades supporters of thorium have argued that it is superior to uranium in every way, yet nearly all of the world’s nuclear reactors have been designed around uranium. Thorium reacts more efficiently than uranium, the resultant radioactive waste has a much shorter half-life, due to its very high melting point nuclear meltdowns are impossible, and no plutonium is produced in the reaction, therefore it cannot be used to create nuclear weapons.
Whilst many proclaim that molten salt reactors are the best type of reactor for thorium fuel, none currently exist or have received regulatory approval. Thor Energy will test the thorium in a heavy water reactor at Halden. The reaction may not be as efficient as possible, but for the fact that the reactor has already been officially approved the testing can begin right away rather than waiting years for a molten salt reactor to be built, checked and approved.
Really what the Norwegians will be looking to determine is whether or not the benefits of using thorium justify the cost of switching to it as a fuel source.
By. Joao Peixe of Oilprice.com
http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Norway-Begin-Testing-Thorium-in-Nuclear-Reactors.html
December 13, 2012
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Michel Duguay is a Professor and the University of Laval. He speaks to us about the benefits of moving towards a nuclear-free future.
“Industry knows that a meltdown could take place”
The biggest risk with CANDU technology reactors is the positive coefficient of nuclear re activity is if a pipe breaks like the Pikering A plant from 1983. If the water cooling is lost the nuclear reaction can be accelerated within one or two seconds and the Thermal Power can go up a factor of five and start melting down the tubes. The nuclear industry has tried to compensate for this but has not done well.
the CNSC has not been following the acts laid down by the nuclear safety act of 1997. The CNSC has failed to inform the public of the technical issues that might lead to a meltdown.
The CSNC also have not given the numbers concerning the likely probabilities of the consequences of a nuclear accident.
Renewable energies would be effective in Ontario and would be available to the whole province, not just part of the province.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb-wnksTv1I
Mouvement Vert Mauricie
written submission to The Joint Environmental Review Panel for theEnvironmental Assessment of the Darlington New Build Project proposed by Ontario Power Generation
February 22, 2011
“The detailed technical analyses provided by Frank Greening and Michel Duguay in the last two sections of this submission clearly demonstrate that the potential for catastrophic nuclear accidents still remains. Years of effort by nuclear scientists and nuclear engineers have failed to produce reactors
that are inherently safe. As the Select Committee on Ontario Hydro Affairs reported in 1980:
It is not right to say that a catastrophic accident is impossible….
The worst possible accident … could involve the spread of radioactive poisons over large areas, killing thousands immediately, killing others through increasing susceptibility to cancer, risking genetic defects that could affect future generations, and possibly contaminating large land areas for
future habitation or cultivation.
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“The BBC Trust’s editorial standards committee (ESC) received a complaint on behalf of more than 50 co-signatories that the show was “extremely selective” in the figures it quoted about the impact of radiation released following the Chernobyl disaster and minimised the “more significant and contentious issue” of the secondary effects of health problems such as thyroid cancer.”
Bang Goes the Theory was ‘extremely selective’ in figures used about deaths resulting from Ukraine accident, trust rules
The BBC Trust ruled Bang Goes the Theory failed audiences by not looking at the wider impact of radiation following the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster. Photograph: Gleb/Garanich/Reuters
BBC1 science show Bang Goes the Theory misleadingly downplayed the likely impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster by stating it has only claimed about 100 lives, the BBC Trust has ruled.
The trust’s editorial standards committee has ruled that a show broadcast on 3 October last year looking at the issue of nuclear power and the impact of radiation gave a “misleading impression” by failing to include research suggesting there could eventually be up to 16,000 premature deaths from the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine.
The trust ruled Bang Goes the Theory failed audiences by not looking at the wider impact of radiation, particularly given its mission to reveal “the truth about the effects of radiation”.
“Viewers would be likely to be left with the impression that a relatively small number of deaths was the only serious adverse health outcome from the radiation fallout from Chernobyl,” said the BBC Trust.
“The committee considered this would be a misleading impression based on the evidence and there had been a breach of accuracy in respect of how the programme reflected the health effects of radiation fallout from Chernobyl.”
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Tamil Nadu,Business/Economy,Science/Tech, Wed, 12 Dec 2012
Chennai, Dec 12 (IANS) The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) has called for a national debate on India’s ambitious nuclear power programme and making it an issue in the 2014 parliamentary polls.
In a statement issued Tuesday, PMANE urged the central government to share with it documents like the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and site evaluation report (SER), safety analysis report (SAR), emergency preparedness plan (EPP) and performance report of the country’s existing and upcoming atomic power plants.
“Let the whole country discuss these reports and information and engage in a nation-wide debate about the exorbitant cost of nuclear energy, the hidden costs such as food insecurity and diseases, nuclear safety, nuclear waste management, decommissioning technology and costs, and the whole array of related issues,” PMANE said.
According to PMANE, which is spearheading the opposition to the 2X1,000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), if a majority of people endorsed the government’s nuclear plan then it would immediately withdraw the struggle against KNPP.
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has declined to share a copy of the safety analysis report on KNPP with PMANE despite the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order.
The country’s atomic power plant operator, NPCIL, is setting up the nuclear power project in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district, around 650 km from here, with two Russian-made VVER 1,000-MW each reactors.
The nuclear power project is an outcome of an inter-governmental agreement between India and the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1988. However, the construction began only in 2001.
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/12/12/311–Activists-call-for-debate-on-India-s-nuclear-power-programme-.html
December 12, 2012
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Blogpost by Pino Lee – December 10, 2012 at 13:30
Today is the International Human Rights Day and what better way to mark it than by launching a court case against injustice in South Korea.
With so many countries moving away from nuclear power in recent decades, and many more rushing to abandon it in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, South Korea remains one of the last withered feathers in the nuclear industry’s cap. Both the South Korean government and the industry are fighting tooth and nail to keep it that way by silencing criticism.
Since establishing an office in Seoul in April 2011, Greenpeace East Asia has witnessed the South Korean government’s willingness to ignore the lessons of Fukushima and has experienced first hand its efforts to silence those speaking out against its nuclear programme.
Between November 2011 and October 2012 six Greenpeace East Asia and Greenpeace International staff were denied entry to South Korea. They were flown back to where they came from and given no official or personal explanation as to why. Official inquiries and freedom of information requests have been met with a similar stony silence.
The only option left open to us was to challenge the government’s actions in blocking our staff from entering the country in court, which we did today.
Challenging the South Korean government’s unjust actions is important, as Greenpeace is not alone in facing this treatment. Other groups, including South Korea’s People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), have been met with similar tactics when they began speaking out.
“Similar to Greenpeace’s anti-nuclear campaign staff, at least 25 peace activists opposing the construction of the Jeju naval base were deported or denied entry since 2011,” said Gayoon Baek, a coordinator of the International Solidarity Committee at PSPD, while standing in solidarity with us at the court today.
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25 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, residents of the area are still exposed to the radiation. They depend on contaminated food and milk.
And the Japanese are in the same situation. Denial of the effects of ionising radiation and dodgy statistic gathering techniques are challenged by Yves Lenoir from Chernobyl Childrens Belarus. He states that the Japanese should have a second look at the accumulated mass of Russian data that was rejected just after the Fukushima Daichi disaster by the Academy of Sciences USA. The timing was glaringly suspicious in my opinion and fortuitous for the nuclear lobby.
https://nuclear-news.net/2012/12/12/concern-about-the-thyroid-of-children-in-fukushima-sciences-avenir-with-comment-from-yves-lenoir-of-chernobyl-children-belarus/
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Yves Lenoir posted on 11-12-2012 at 18:08
I went to a doctor and an agronomist in 1989 and 1990 in the most contaminated territories of Belarus (Vietko) and Russia (Novozybkov). Doctors talk to doctors. On the thyroid, they showed us statistical tables with about 50% of nodules (generic term for them) and even more Vietko Novozybkov. There were also cases of thyroiditis. We know the rest …
Less than two years after the Fukushima digit rates of thyroid lumps and cysts in children exposed already exceeds 40% is anything but reassuring. It is time for the real health effects of Chernobyl (described in scientific papers published in the former USSR, and no official reports bidonnés the ICRP and UNSCEAR, possibly after bleaching care WHO ) serve as a reference to assess the extent of what the health outcomes of children in Fukushima is heavy.
Yves Lenoir, President Children of Chernobyl Belarus
Translated from french
The first results of a study conducted by the Medical University of the prefecture are worrying. A first case of cancer was identified in September. But confusion still reigns.
Created on 11-12-2012 12:01 – Updated 12-12-2012 at 11:27
Marie Linton, correspondence from Japan
FAULTS. Panic among parents in Fukushima . 40% of the approximately 100,000 children who underwent an ultrasound since October 2011 have thyroid abnormalities (1), this gland hormone secretion which contributes to the growth and energy metabolism. Among them, 501 have nodules (larger than 5 mm) or cysts (over 20 mm) sufficiently disturbing to require additional tests: blood, urine test and possibly needle biopsy (removal of cells in thyroid through a fine needle). But only 109 of these 501 children have actually passed this series of tests has detected one case of cancer of the thyroid in a 16 years last September.
The Fukushima Medical University leads this large epidemiological study among 360,000 children in the prefecture under 18 at the time of the accident nuclear . These are considered to be directly or university in their city centers approved by the university. All must pass a thyroid ultrasound every two years until their twentieth anniversary and every five years. In April 2014, all children will be expected to have had an initial examination.
The people have in mind the precedent of Chernobyl
The first results, including the figure of 40% of thyroid lesions, caused confusion in the prefecture of Fukushima. Anguished parents flock to private clinics to pass examinations, against their offspring.The private hospital in the prefecture-level city Azuma has explored the thyroids of 400 children since last August, part of which had already undergone official testing.
DOUBLE CONFIRMATION. “99% of the time, we come to the same conclusions as the medical university, says Dr. Ikuo Higuchi who performs ultrasounds. But parents want a double confirmation.“The people have in mind the precedent of Chernobyl: 8000 cases of thyroid cancer diagnosed to date in the most contaminated areas (2).
A child during an ultrasound performed by Ikuo Higutchi, Azuma doctor at the hospital in the city of Fukushima. Photo of William Bression for Sciences et Avenir.
Radioactive iodine released during a nuclear disaster tends to bind to the thyroid when it is inhaled or ingested. It radiates so this hormonal gland located at the base of the neck throughout the life of the radioactive elements (iodine 131 has a half-life of 8 days). Children and infants whose growing thyroid is particularly sensitive to this contamination, and therefore more likely to develop cancer.
POINT ZERO. But what does this figure of 40% of anomalies? The number of cases of thyroid cancer will he burn in Fukushima like Chernobyl? Researchers in endocrinology or radiation are still struggling to decide. “Do not draw conclusions from this first examination risky, says Dr. Abraham Behar, president of the Association of French physicians for prevention of nuclear war . It is simply ‘point zero’, which will allow to see how the situation evolves. ‘
MEETING. Touring party in the prefecture to calm the parents, the teacher Shinichi Suzuki, M. “Thyroid” of the MedicalUniversity of Fukushima , says radioactivity can not be disputed at this stage as nodules and cysts appear naturally in the population. “It is impossible to see the effects of radioactivity so early, he provides a briefing prior to Minamisoma, 25 kilometers from the plant accident ed. thyroid cancers are the first to occur.However, even at Chernobyl, he had to wait four or five years to see what kind of cancers occur in children. “
Whether the accident nuclear is concerned, you should compare the rate of nodules and cysts detected in Fukushima children to other unexposed. The children are between 1 and 1.5% when the anomalies detected by palpation (3), much more when they undergo an ultrasound. However, such comparisons are more difficult than it seems.
NAGASAKI. Was believed that such study conducted in Nagasaki, Japan , in 2001, on the thyroids of 250 children, would serve as the master standard. Even if it had been co-authored by Professor Yamashita, Vice President controversial Fukushima Medical University (4). At the time, the ultrasound showed that only 1.6% of children had abnormal thyroid less than Fukushima, so (5).
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December 12, 2012
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Lahore : Hospital waste being used to make kids feeders, crockery and straws — 2 Factories sealed.
There is only a single video of this news has been reported. But it can be found on many news outlets in Pakistan.
No translation yet as to whether nuclear materials are involved. i will post if any further news comes in.
Here is the video in its original language
http://www.firstpost.com/topic/place/lahore-lahore-hospitals-waste-being-used-to-make-baby-feeders-crockery-and-straws-2-factories-sealed-video-PDdEx7XZgAg-4186-1.html
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check the links and qoutes below the article for the debunking of this report
Japan Officials Failed to Hand Out Radiation Pills in Quake’s Aftermath
Over 100 Japan nuclear workers at risk of thyroid cancer
The reality of Ultrasonic Thyroid Examinations
WHO Report on Fukushima a Travesty
The UN Rapporteur calls for the Japanese government to take responsibility, concerning particularly with the effects of radiation
h/t sue from enenews
Last year, Japanese authorities protected children in Fukushima prefecture from iodine-131 by evacuating them before radiation was released, issuing stable iodine pills to block iodine-131, and preventing food and water containing the radioactive isotope from being consumed.
Researched and written
by World Nuclear News
10 December 2012
“..The United Nations is to adopt advice on radiation that clarifies what can be said about its health effects on individuals and large populations. A preliminary report has also found no observable health effects from last year’s nuclear accident in Fukushima…”
The studies come from the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) after five years of work. An independent body of international experts, UNSCEAR has met regularly since 1955 and helped establish radiation as the best understood carcinogen in the world through its studies of atomic bomb survivors and the effects of the Chernobyl accident.
Having been officially approved by the UN General Assembly, the reports – as well as a resolution welcoming them – will be endorsed in coming weeks. They will then serve to inform all countries of the world when setting their own national radiation safety policies.
Presenting to the UN General Assembly, UNSCEAR’s chair Wolfgang Weiss said that preliminary findings were that no radiation health effects had been observed in Japan among the public, workers or children in the area of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This is in line with studies already published by the World Health Organisation and Tokyo University that showed people near the damaged power plant received such low doses of radiation that no discernible health effect could be expected.
Low dose
Uncertainties at low doses are such that UNSCEAR ‘does not recommend multiplying low doses by large numbers of individuals to estimate numbers of radiation-induced health effects within a population exposed to incremental doses at levels equivalent to or below natural background levels.’
Six workers received total doses of over 250 mSv during their time tackling the emergency, while 170 received doses over 100 mSv. None of these have shown ill effects, said UNSCEAR, stating that radiation played no role in the coincidental deaths of six Fukushima workers in the time since the accident.
Defining radiation risk
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December 11, 2012
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaXtfZ5WGf8 Letters of hope – Children from the tsunami zone aired 12/8/12 (excerpt) MissingSky101 Dec 8, 2012 A very moving and poignant video diary selection describing the hopes and fears of the children living near the nuclear disaster site.
Children talk about the nuclear accident after the earthquake. with updates a year and a half on.
NHK March to Recovery Series:
One year has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Reconstruction initiatives are underway in many places, including the disaster-stricken areas. March to Recovery shows how the nation is recovering from the unprecedented disaster.
December 10, 2012
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“1000 deaths at the hands of the police but not one conviction”
Published on Nov 27, 2012
RT talks to the Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Gavin MacFadyen, about the difficulties whistleblowers face when trying to promote transparency.
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December 8, 2012
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John Glaser, December 04, 2012
In October, the US launched an airstrike in Afghanistan that killed three children – ages 8, 10, and 12 -while they were gathering firewood (or by some accounts, dung to burn as fuel). NATO issued its usual dismissive statement, admitting it may have “accidentally killed three innocent Afghan civilians.”
But now, according to theMilitary Times, the US military includes children on their list of who they’re allowed to murder with impunity.
…a Marine official here raised questions about whether the children were “innocent.” Before calling for the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System mission in mid-October, Marines observed the children digging a hole in a dirt road in Nawa district, the official said, and the Taliban may have recruited the children to carry out the mission.
So digging holes in Afghanistan is now grounds for getting bombed? The children’s relatives and local tribal elders had confirmed at the time that they were not Taliban recruits and were not planting any roadside bombs.
That’s apparently not enough for the US military to simply admit that killing innocent children is wrong. Instead, they invent Orwellian rationales for why these poor children were worthy enemy combatants.
“It kind of opens our aperture,” said Army Lt. Col. Marion “Ced” Carrington, whose unit, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was assisting the Afghan police. “In addition to looking for military-age males, it’s looking for children with potential hostile intent.”
There you have it. The US military is now looking for “military-age males” and “children” to kill in Afghanistan.
http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/12/04/us-military-says-killing-afghan-children-is-fair-game/
December 8, 2012
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US building bunker fortress to hide Israeli nukes, bio war labs
By Gordon Duff and Press TV
“The Army Corps of Engineers has a long history of unaccountable behavior bordering on “rogue.” They are, within all aspects of American military and government, long “above the law,” seizing land anywhere they choose.”
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The project is one of several, moving Israel underground, safe from prying eyes of what is now clearly deep suspicion by “old friends” and genuine outrage by most of the world. We saw this clearly in the aftermath of the Gaza attacks and Israel and America’s staggering defeat at the UN.
Massive construction projects have been discovered that involve nuclear storage facilities, bioweapons labs and silos for nuclear missiles, some supplied by India, with range sufficient to reach key population centers in the United States.
The story was initially broken by Walter Pincus for the Washington Post. Pincus describes in detail the projects paid for by the American taxpayer and contracted out by the Army Corps of Engineers, the organization responsible for construction of the concentration camp known as “Gaza.”
The design is based on NORAD headquarters at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, built to withstand direct hits of up to 30-megaton thermonuclear warheads. The cost, listed as 100 million dollars for each of what is minimally three such “Fuhrer Bunkers,” will, in actuality, be closer to 20 billion dollars each.
From the Washington Post:
“U.S. overseeing mysterious construction project in Israel
“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to supervise construction of a five-story underground facility for an Israel Defense Forces complex, oddly named “Site 911,” at an Israeli Air Force base near Tel Aviv.
“…the facility is to have… a laboratory, shock-resistant doors, protection from nonionizing radiation and very tight security.
“The 1998 Wye River Memorandum between Israel and the Palestinian Authority has led to about $500 million in U.S. construction of military facilities for the Israelis, most of them initially in an undeveloped part of the Negev Desert.
“…three bases were built to support 20,000 troops, and eventually the Israeli air force moved into the same area, creating Nevatim air base. A new runway, 2.5 miles long, was built there by the Corps along with about 100 new buildings and 10 miles of roads.
“…the Corps has built underground hangers for Israeli fighter-bombers, facilities for handling nuclear weapons (though Israel does not admit having such weapons), command centers, trainingbases, intelligence facilities and simulators, according to Corps publications.
“…according to the Corps notice, “The employment of Palestinians is also forbidden.”
Army Corps of Engineers, Racist, Political and Religious Crusaders
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December 8, 2012
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Richard Silverstein
Dec 6, 2012
I’m beginning to read reports from Gaza that indicate that the IDF may’ve used depleted uranium munitions during its recent assault. A local journalist writes in Electronic Intifada about the grotesque forms of some of the victims’ wounds. He (incorrectly, I believe) associates them with chemical weapons like white phosphorus:
Among those receiving treatment in Nasser hospital in Khan Younis is a man who was hit by an Israeli drone that struck a farm owned by his family in southern Gaza. A friend of his was killed in the attack. “I was hit directly in my abdomen and two legs,” said the man, who is in his thirties and asked not to be named.
Baker al-Derdy, the head nurse in Nasser hospital, said that when this man was first admitted, there was “a strange smell, almost chemical” from him. Al-Derdy pointed to other indications that Israel may have used chemical weapons during its offensive.
“Some of the symptoms we have seen are abnormal,” al-Derdy added. “The type of burns that appear on the bodies suggest that the weapons employed were not conventional. The burns go deep into the skin and the skin itself turns blue. And I can tell you that the burns hit even the third layer of the skin.”
…Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesperson for the health ministry in Gaza…acknowledged that some of the burns witnessed were deeper than those associated with conventional weapons.
“We in Gaza and health bodies in the West Bank do not have laboratories where we could properly examine what types of weapons have been used in Israeli attacks,” al-Qedra said. “But according to what we have seen so far, it appears that Israel used some explosive weapons or ammunition that caused burns and deep wounds. In most cases of those killed, we have seen that bodies were either torn apart or completely burnt out. Also, many of those injured have had their lower or upper limbs amputated.”
Making clear that I’m neither a doctor nor a weapons specialist, the general description of these savage wounds reminds me much more of the DIME munition developed by the U.S. and used by the IDF in Gaza in 2006. I posted several times about this horrific weapon. The Gaza Interior Ministry, in the midst of the fighting, released a statement claiming it had recorded high rates of radioactivity at bombing sites, claiming that unconventional weapons were used against a civilian population:
Major Hazem Abu Murad, assistant director of explosives engineering and member of the Committee to document war crimes, revealed that the occupation used radioactive materials in the explosives with which it had bombed the Gaza Strip.
Abu Murad told the Interior Ministry that the weapons with which Israel targeted Gaza contain heavy elements, including the Uranium, tungsten, aluminum and nickel”, and pointed out that these materials raise the temperature in the center of the explosion to 7 thousand degrees Celsius, and boost the destructive ability of the shell.
He also pointed to the types of weapons used by the occupation during the recent aggression on the Gaza Strip, noting that among those weapons there are three types of ammunition which have been used for the first time.
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December 8, 2012
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