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Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
1/1000???
Can you tell me why they where looking for tritium in the first place?
A water sample from the WTC sewer, collected on 9/13/01, contained 0.174±0.074 (2σ) nCi/L of HTO. A split water sample, collected on 9/21/01 from the basement of WTC Building 6, contained 3.53±0.17 and 2.83±0.15 nCi/L, respectively. Several water and vegetation samples were analyzed from areas outside the ground zero, located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Kensico Reservoir. No HTO above the background was found in those samples. All these results are well below the levels of concern to human exposure.
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Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
I'd like a better explaination of these sweeping numbers you're coming up with.
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
If you had read the first report you'd know that they theorized that tritium would be present from their specified sources, so they searched at and downwind from ground zero, and sure enough they were right.
Several tritium radioluminescent (RL) devices were investigated as possible sources of the traces of tritium at ground zero.
We became interested in the subject of tritium at WTC because of the
possibility that tritium RL devices could have been present and destroyed at WTC. Three groups of environmental samples were analyzed for tritium as HTO, to confirm or disprove this hypothesis. The 1st group consisted of the samples collected by the EPA not specifically for tritium analysis. They were analyzed for tritium after this investigation had started. The 2nd group was analyzed for tritium before this investigation started, and was collected by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (samples 23-35 at the request of EPA). The 3rd group consisted of the samples collected especially for this investigation.
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Originally posted by amfirst
Saying that a nuke was use has to be one of the stupidest of the 911 conspiracies. Where's the radiation dummies?
Originally posted by Pootie
Originally posted by amfirst
Saying that a nuke was use has to be one of the stupidest of the 911 conspiracies. Where's the radiation dummies?
Ok... you should be banned and I don't know why I answer you because you are a troll, but...
A neutron bomb produces much less blast and thermal energy than a fission bomb of the same yield by expending its energy by the increase in the production of neutrons. Even the older neutron bombs produce very little long term fallout, but made considerable induced radiation in ground detonations. The half life of induced radiation is very short and is measured in days rather than years.
Summing up known information, an underground explosion of a pure (most likely) or semi-pure, Minimum Residual Residue direction focused 0.01 kt yield hydrogen bomb with selected enhanced radiation dispersal - most likely neutron since that radiation would be absorbed by the ground and building, and would decrease the blast and temperature effects.
[edit on 1-5-2007 by Pootie]
The half life of induced radiation is very short and is measured in days rather than years.
Fourth-Generation Nuclear Weapons
First- and second-generation nuclear weapons are atomic and hydrogen bombs developed during the 1940s and 1950s, while third-generation weapons comprise a number of concepts developed between the 1960s and 1980s, e.g. the neutron bomb, which never found a permanent place in the military arsenals. Fourth-generation nuclear weapons are new types of nuclear explosives that can be developed in full compliance with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) using inertial confinement fusion (ICF) facilities such as the NIF in the US, and other advanced technologies which are under active development in all the major nuclear-weapon states - and in major industrial powers such as Germany and Japan.11
In a nutshell, the defining technical characteristic of fourth-generation nuclear weapons is the triggering - by some advanced technology such as a superlaser, magnetic compression, antimatter, etc. - of a relatively small thermonuclear explosion in which a deuterium-tritium mixture is burnt in a device whose weight and size are not much larger than a few kilograms and litres. Since the yield of these warheads could go from a fraction of a ton to many tens of tons of high-explosive equivalent, their delivery by precision-guided munitions or other means will dramatically increase the fire-power of those who possess them - without crossing the threshold of using kiloton-to-megaton nuclear weapons, and therefore without breaking the taboo against the first-use of weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, since these new weapons will use no (or very little) fissionable materials, they will produce virtually no radioactive fallout. Their proponents will define them as "clean" nuclear weapons - and possibly draw a parallel between their battlefield use and the consequences of the expenditure of depleted uranium ammunition.12
But many scientists involved are acutely aware of the military applications. Indeed, a concerned group at Darmstadt University - home of the German super-laser program - published the Gsponer-Hurni paper.
"These gadgets are not for terrorists, but for the governments of powerful countries," says Gsponer.
In the case of nuclear explosives the situation is more complicated because the different kinds of radiations can have a variety of effects, especially if they are very penetrating, as is the case for high energy neutrons and gamma rays. The most important of these effects are as follows:
• Generate a fireball (in air or a material). This is primarily the effect of the soft Xrays which have a relatively short mean free path in any material, including air. The material will heat up and the resulting fireball will radiate longer wavelength electromagnetic energy, i.e., a heat wave leading to various thermal effects.
• Launch a shock wave (in air or in a material). This is primarily the result of the expansion of the soft Xrays generated fireball into the surroundings, which launches a shock wave leading to blast effects.
• Heat the surface of a material. Hard Xrays and low energy gamma rays able to propagate over some distances in low density intervening materials (e.g., air) will be absorbed at the surface of any high density material.
• Ablate a material and produce a shock wave in it. If surface heating is
sufficiently strong, the material will vaporize (i.e., “ablate”) and by reaction
(i.e., “rocket effect”) a large pressure will be exerted on it, launching a
shock wave into the material.
• Accelerate or compress a material. If the ablation pressure is sufficiently strong, a material can be accelerated to high velocity by rocket effect; and if the ablation pressure is simultaneously exerted on all sides, a material can be compressed to high density as is the case of the secondary in a two stage thermonuclear weapon.
• Transfer momentum to a material. Either directly through the effect of radiations, or indirectly by means of shock waves propagating through an intervening medium, momentum can be transferred to a material which can be directly accelerated to high velocity without being ablated.
• Energize a working material. A special case of volume heating is that in which a “working material” is intentionally placed near a nuclear explosive in order to heat it to high temperature so that it can do mechanical work on other materials. This is the nuclear analog of a steam machine, in which super heated water (i.e., steam) is used to produce motion.
• **** Heat the volume of a material. Penetrating high energy radiations neutrons, pions,15 or high energy gamma rays)will easily cross a low density intervening medium such as air and deposit their energy deep into any high density material. As a result, a substantial (i.e., centimeter to meter thick) layer of a bomb irradiated material can be brought to a temperature sufficiently high for it to melt, vaporize, or even explode. ****
• Forge and project missiles. A superheated working material can be used to forge a material into a missile and project it to a large distance.
At a steady-state blood fluid deuteration value of 16%, when the deuterium isotope fraction in drinking water was 25%, a mean oedematous volume change of 9 ± 2% (p-value
Originally posted by XR500Final
4th Generation MicroNukes Used on WTC1,2 and 7
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
4th Generation MicroNukes Used on WTC1,2 and 7
So where were they?
What floors?
How many? What sort of timing?
How does the sigma of those dynamics explain what we saw happen?
Originally posted by Pootie
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
So where were they? What floors?
How many? What sort of timing?
How does the sigma of those dynamics explain what we saw happen?
All of these questions seem to require a formal CRIMINAL investigation.
Since the evidence has been destroyed, it will need to be a creative one.
Wouldn't you be able to imagine a heat wave as described above, entering the street under an angle starting from the left WTC 7 corner, because coming from WTC 1 or/and 6, which were situated at the back/south of WTC 7, where your picture was taken at the street left to it, missing the cars on the right (including the intact US Mail truck), but hitting the other US Mail truck on the left side?
Then that wave went reflecting/pinballing from left to right along the building faces on both sides of that street and along the next street, to hit that big bus also on the left side. And died down some further down in magnitude.
And remember, aluminum plating is far less dense than steel plating, so steel will absorb more heat and deeper into it.
(I'm sure you will be able to visualize my words with a zigzagging line in your pictures, much obliged if you do so.[smile])