If you need assistance, please send an email to forum at 4hv dot org. To ensure your email is not marked as spam, please include the phrase "4hv help" in the subject line. You can also find assistance via IRC, at irc.shadowworld.net, room #hvcomm.
Support 4hv.org!
Donate:
4hv.org is hosted on a dedicated server. Unfortunately, this server costs and we rely on the help of site members to keep 4hv.org running. Please consider donating. We will place your name on the thanks list and you'll be helping to keep 4hv.org alive and free for everyone. Members whose names appear in red bold have donated recently. Green bold denotes those who have recently donated to keep the server carbon neutral.
Special Thanks To:
Aaron Holmes
Aaron Wheeler
Adam Horden
Alan Scrimgeour
Andre
Andrew Haynes
Anonymous000
asabase
Austin Weil
barney
Barry
Bert Hickman
Bill Kukowski
Blitzorn
Brandon Paradelas
Bruce Bowling
BubeeMike
Byong Park
Cesiumsponge
Chris F.
Chris Hooper
Corey Worthington
Derek Woodroffe
Dalus
Dan Strother
Daniel Davis
Daniel Uhrenholt
datasheetarchive
Dave Billington
Dave Marshall
David F.
Dennis Rogers
drelectrix
Dr. John Gudenas
Dr. Spark
E.TexasTesla
eastvoltresearch
Eirik Taylor
Erik Dyakov
Erlend^SE
Finn Hammer
Firebug24k
GalliumMan
Gary Peterson
George Slade
GhostNull
Gordon Mcknight
Graham Armitage
Grant
GreySoul
Henry H
IamSmooth
In memory of Leo Powning
Jacob Cash
James Howells
James Pawson
Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Thomas
Jesse Frost
Jim Mitchell
jlr134
Joe Mastroianni
John Forcina
John Oberg
John Willcutt
Jon Newcomb
klugesmith
Leslie Wright
Lutz Hoffman
Mads Barnkob
Martin King
Mats Karlsson
Matt Gibson
Matthew Guidry
mbd
Michael D'Angelo
Mikkel
mileswaldron
mister_rf
Neil Foster
Nick de Smith
Nick Soroka
nicklenorp
Nik
Norman Stanley
Patrick Coleman
Paul Brodie
Paul Jordan
Paul Montgomery
Ped
Peter Krogen
Peter Terren
PhilGood
Richard Feldman
Robert Bush
Royce Bailey
Scott Fusare
Scott Newman
smiffy
Stella
Steven Busic
Steve Conner
Steve Jones
Steve Ward
Sulaiman
Thomas Coyle
Thomas A. Wallace
Thomas W
Timo
Torch
Ulf Jonsson
vasil
Vaxian
vladi mazzilli
wastehl
Weston
William Kim
William N.
William Stehl
Wesley Venis
The aforementioned have contributed financially to the continuing triumph of 4hv.org. They are deserving of my most heartfelt thanks.
Registered Member #2463
Joined: Wed Nov 11 2009, 03:49AM
Location:
Posts: 1546
Take 2 The article "A multicurie irradiation site for exposure of large animals to whole body gamma irradiation' May 1952 (Nucleonics) done at Oak Ridge
Registered Member #543
Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4992
I'm uncertain as to the purpose of this thread, so I'll confine my observations to a few brief remarks:
1) The happy families uranium mine story is typical of the propaganda produced by the US Atomic Energy Commission to encourage domestic uranium prospecting so that the United States weapons programme would not be dependent on ore mined in the then Belgian Congo and South Africa.
The Atomic Energy Act 1946 made the US government the exclusive owner and sole lawful purchaser of all fissionable material and its precursors in the USA. This totalitarian diktat was sweetened by improbably generous guaranteed ore prices which resulted in a uranium prospecting craze. The dream of radioactive riches rolled on until 1958, when the US government, no longer desperate for uranium reserves, linked its guaranteed purchasing price to the more realistic assay quality.
2) The wretched fate of the burros/donkeys in J. L. WILDING, C. S. SIMONS, and J. H. RUST, Multi-curie irradiation site for exposure of large animals to whole-body gamma irradiationis is typical of A-bomb era vivisection experiments. Tens of thousands of animals, large and small, suffered horrible deaths by radiation poisoning in such Mengele-like experiments.
Registered Member #2463
Joined: Wed Nov 11 2009, 03:49AM
Location:
Posts: 1546
Most of the articles in 'Nucleonics' magazine centered on methods of arranging the experiments. In the large animal test, the issue was activating the sources from the control center. There was mention of the fact that the irradiation of the operators of the facility never exceeded the allowable dose.
I wonder what the bones of these burros will show today or 500 years from now? The reason for the need for the data collected was not made clear.
In 1952 the A E C shifted the respossibilty to private enterprise under Harry S Truman's regime.
Registered Member #2463
Joined: Wed Nov 11 2009, 03:49AM
Location:
Posts: 1546
The problem then was after the Pacific War ended they set up a large treatment/research center in Japan but by 1952 the Soviets had the bomb too and there were not enogh answers to the issue of protecting agriculture. The A bomb was thought to be be just a gigantic tnt-equivalent load that could be delivered cheaply. They barely finished building them when thay used them. The third author of the paper was a US army vetrinarian. That they even got that test setup to work is amazing even by todays standards. The burros just roamed around 20 sources. Chernoble seems to be viable again at least for the fauna ond flora.
This site is powered by e107, which is released under the GNU GPL License. All work on this site, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. By submitting any information to this site, you agree that anything submitted will be so licensed. Please read our Disclaimer and Policies page for information on your rights and responsibilities regarding this site.
Radioactive Burro
