Depleted Uranium Shells Blown Up in Ukraine And Fake News

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Russian forces launched an air and missile raid in west Ukraine over the weekend, striking an ammunition depot, causing a massive explosion.

The depot reportedly contained a stockpile of recently delivered British depleted uranium tank shells, which were destroyed in the explosion, allegedly sending radioactive particles into the atmosphere of the Khmelnytsky region.

After researching, it appears that the story is based on speculation. It’s fake news.

Depleted Uranium shells were one of Russia’s red lines crossed by the UK. The British said there wasn’t any added danger.

Slavyangrad reported that a spike in gamma radiation had been detected around the time of the Russian airstrike, which would contradict the British claim.

The chart below is floating around as evidence. However, it indicates that the spike began on the 11th. The attack was on the 12th. Moreover, this is from a real-time system for general information and it is not from an alerting system.

The instructions from the map which appears to be the source of the story:

“The EURDEP platform has no alerting function. The notification of a radiological accident or emergency is accomplished through the European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange (ECURIE). No action may be taken based on this data without prior consultation with the data provider.

“The majority of the measurements presented here are NON-VALIDATED DATA. This means that meteorological conditions such as heavy rain or snow, defects in the instruments, electronics or software, or ongoing calibration work can result in erroneous or seemingly elevated values.”

As a consequence, elevated levels appearing on the map, even when present on several nearby stations, CANNOT alone be taken as an indication of actual increased levels of radioactivity.

Also, the depleted uranium shells mostly give off Alpha particles. The levels of 140 mSv aren’t even high.

The British and US appear to be accurate about the near-non-existent levels of radioactivity.

The shells are DEPLETED uranium used to penetrate armor; it’s mostly depleted. The US military uses only .2% or less 235U and the shells are not much of a source of radioactivity.

The chart from the map used to give legitimacy:

This information appears to be conjecture, not based on fact. It was a big explosion of an ammo depot. The people are not in danger from it.

Correction: The story was rewritten with additional information upon further research.


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GuvGeek
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GuvGeek
6 months ago

How about the increased radiation let the Russians know where the Depleted Uranium was being stockpiled so they took the site out. Or worse, Radio Active material was being gathered for a Dirty Bomb.

Greg
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Greg
6 months ago

Are we to believe government officials on any danger. Serbia and Iraq suggest otherwise.

As far as the graph; How does the international date line figure in this.

Greg
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Greg
6 months ago
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The VA on depleted uranium exposure.

https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/depleted_uranium/

Oh, it’s Only .3% so that’s okay. According to this, that .3% is 50% of natural uranium.

Depleted uranium is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope ²³⁵ U than natural uranium. Natural uranium contains about 0.72% ²³⁵ U , while the DU used by the U.S. Department of Defense contains 0.3% ²³⁵ U or less.”

The Prisoner
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The Prisoner
6 months ago

Russia destroyed ammunition which would be used to kill them. It is the west which put the uranium there. That makes the decrepit west guilty. I see the west put the material in a city of a quarter million. I see the EU produced the gamma ray data.

The Prisoner
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The Prisoner
6 months ago

Every major story about this war out of the west is a lie.

The release of alpha particles is an important detail I did not know. That is certainly not gamma radiation. Alpha particles are helium nuclei, and do not release rays.

If they got the fake gamma radiation data out in the wrong interval, that indicates a lack of coordination in the western propaganda.