Lastmanstanding
I have been given, and will shortly be given.......a medical test
I am sorry to hear that and wish you well.
With respect, though, you're comparing apples and oranges. Medical isotopes, have half-lives measured in days during which they emit small amounts of gamma radiation.
As I already point out, Uranium isotopes decay much more slowly with half lives measured in millions of years.
You also seem to think I'm disagreeing with the IAEA and its scientists, which is perplexing since there are numerous articles saying essentially the same things I've said on this thread.
Here is a typical example: (From Al Jazeera)
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“Very little uranium will be released in these kind of attacks,” said David Albright, a physicist and nuclear weapons expert who founded the Institute for Science and International Security, based in Washington."
"A person standing near an enrichment facility with a leak would probably be exposed to no more radiation than someone who took several trans-Atlantic flights, which receive slightly higher radiation because radiation doses are larger at high altitudes, he said.
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Here's another example (From NPR)
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"The two major kinds of uranium isotopes found at this type of facility "are at the low end of hazard with regard to radioactive materials," says Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C.
"What's more, these facilities would have mostly been working with uranium in the form of a gas called uranium hexafluoride. The molecules of this gas are big and heavy. That means when a container that holds this gas gets ruptured, the gas doesn't travel far through the air, according to Emily Caffrey, a health physics expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham."
"Earlier this month, when an attack by Israel damaged the aboveground portion of the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant, the level of radioactivity outside the site "remained unchanged and at normal levels, indicating no external radiological impact to the population or the environment from this event," the IAEA reported."
----------Saudi Arabia is a substantial distance away from Fordo, Isfahan & Natanz, so again the anomaly here is entirely in your own mind.
