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Originally posted by -Reason-
Lets say that it was Thermite with a sulfur powder to lower the melting points, like that "911 Mysteries" movie puts forth. How much? How many floors?
Originally posted by jpm1602
Radiation was detected in the viscinity of Manhattan days and weeks afterwards.
Radiation was detected in the viscinity of Manhattan days and weeks afterwards.
Two days after 9/11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed that the Pentagon crash site rubble was radioactive and that the probable contaminant was Depleted Uranium (DU).
Originally posted by coughymachine
reply to post by jpm1602
Radiation was detected in the viscinity of Manhattan days and weeks afterwards.
I recall hearing/reading about this too but I cannot find a source now.
However, PepeLapew, there are a couple of reports that elevated levels of radiation were found around the Pentagon on and after 9/11.
The Canadian, for example, reports that...
Two days after 9/11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed that the Pentagon crash site rubble was radioactive and that the probable contaminant was Depleted Uranium (DU).
Sept. 12, 2006 -- According to sources who worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at Ground Zero on and after 911, residents of southern Manhattan and rescue and clean-up workers involved in the recovery operations at the site of the former World Trade Center are experiencing an unusually high rate of non-Hodgkin lymphoma...more
Originally posted by -Reason-
Lets say that it was Thermite with a sulfur powder to lower the melting points, like that "911 Mysteries" movie puts forth. How much? How many floors?
Originally posted by PepeLapew
I would like to know where you got that information. I have never heard that before. I believe you but I am curious where you learned that.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(University of California, University of California)
Year 2002 Paper LBNL-50782
Elevated tritium levels at the World Trade Center
Originally posted by Griff
Possibly with some explosives to aid the collapse at near freefall once the structure started to fail (covering up the noise of the explosives). Or a few thermobaric bombs in the core. Or a mini-nuke or 2.
I'm not advocating any type of explosive/incindiary. I just see the physics and come to the conclusion that it wasn't plane damage and fire alone.
Again, this is just my opinion.
Originally posted by Griff
Originally posted by PepeLapew
I would like to know where you got that information. I have never heard that before. I believe you but I am curious where you learned that.
Here's a non-conspiratorial link. Although, they try and come up with explainations such as exit signs, wrist watches, and police gun scopes.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(University of California, University of California)
Year 2002 Paper LBNL-50782
Elevated tritium levels at the World Trade Center
Source: repositories.cdlib.org...
Hope that helps.
Originally posted by PepeLapew
Fetzer is a prof, he would know about the use of a Geiger counter .... why doesn't he go down to NYC and prove his theory with a Geiger counter?
Tritium emits a weak form of radiation. The radiation emitted from tritium is a low-energy beta particle that is similar to an electron. Moreover, the tritium beta particle does not travel very far in air and cannot penetrate the skin.
Deuterium-Tritium Fusion
The most promising of the hydrogen fusion reactions which make up the deuterium cycle is the fusion of deuterium and tritium. The reaction yields 17.6 MeV of energy but requires a temperature of approximately 40 million Kelvins to overcome the coulomb barrier and ignite it. The deuterium fuel is abundant, but tritium must be either bred from lithium or gotten in the operation of the deuterium cycle.
Deuterium is useful in nuclear fusion reactions, especially in combination with tritium, because of the large reaction rate (or nuclear cross section) and high energy yield of the D-T reaction.
Nuclear fusion involves merging two types of hydrogen atom – deuterium and tritium – to make helium, as well as neutrons that release vast quantities of energy. Almost limitless amounts of deuterium fuel can be made cheaply from seawater, tritium being produced as a byproduct in the reactor itself. Nuclear fusion produces only rudimentary radioactive waste, similar to that from hospital X-ray machines, and none of the high-level waste from fission reactors.
Originally posted by PepeLapew
Not really, tritium is not a byproduct of a nuclear detonation. In fact tritium has nothing to do with nukes.
Almost limitless amounts of deuterium fuel can be made cheaply from seawater, tritium being produced as a byproduct in the reactor itself.
Originally posted by Griff
Notice the theoretically.
Originally posted by PepeLapew
Just keep in mind that the presence of trace amounts of tritium would barely make the micro-nukes claim a valuable one
A water sample from the WTC sewer, collected on 9/13/01, contained
0.174 plus or minus 0.074 (2s) nCi/L of HTO. A split water sample, collected
on 9/21/01 from the basement of WTC Building 6,
and there still would need to be some considerable residual radiations still to this day..... just ask anyone in Hiroshima.
tritium
From: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | Date: 2007
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Isotope of hydrogen, chemical symbol written as 3H or T, with atomic number 1 but atomic weight approximately 3. Its nucleus contains one proton and two neutrons. Tritium is radioactive ( radioactivity), with a half-life of 12.32 years. Its occurrence in natural water in an amount 1018 that of ordinary hydrogen is believed to be due to the action of cosmic rays. Some tritium is used in self-luminous materials (e.g., for watch dials) and as a radioactive tracer in chemical and biochemical studies. Nuclear fusion of deuterium and tritium at high temperatures releases enormous amounts of energy. Such reactions have been used in nuclear weapons and experimental power reactors.