Comments on: Bash Wonders…Iranian Iodine Mines A Cover For Nuke Weps Testing? https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/ The latest in policital news and the war in Iraq Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:35:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Jim https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/#comment-107466 Jim Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:34:41 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/#comment-107466 Bash way to be on your toes...I don't have a clue but it's worth throwing out there BTW, We lost 2 seals out of Little Creek ... so if you see any news Bash way to be on your toes…I don’t have a clue but it’s worth throwing out there

BTW, We lost 2 seals out of Little Creek … so if you see any news

]]> By: cnchess https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/#comment-107483 cnchess Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:24:35 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/#comment-107483 Sorry Bash, this dog won't hunt. Natural iodine, like in a mine, is Iodine 127: 53 protons, 74 neutrons. It is the only iodine isotope found in nature. Iodine 131 has 4 extra neutrons and is highly radioactive so it is easy to detect. Iodine 127 is not radioactive, and it is almost impossible to detect because you need concentrations in the parts per million for the detector to measure it. Almost any release from a mining accident would dilute in the atmosphere quickly below that concentration. So, if the pudding-heads who run Iran think this will hide a nuke test, they are really mistaken. This wouldn't fool anyone. Sorry Bash, this dog won’t hunt.

Natural iodine, like in a mine, is Iodine 127: 53 protons, 74 neutrons. It is the only iodine isotope found in nature. Iodine 131 has 4 extra neutrons and is highly radioactive so it is easy to detect. Iodine 127 is not radioactive, and it is almost impossible to detect because you need concentrations in the parts per million for the detector to measure it. Almost any release from a mining accident would dilute in the atmosphere quickly below that concentration.

So, if the pudding-heads who run Iran think this will hide a nuke test, they are really mistaken. This wouldn’t fool anyone.

]]> By: Bash https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/#comment-107493 Bash Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:55:14 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/#comment-107493 Well, I was bored and had been mulling this over in my head and I figured if I put it out here, someone who knew something might be able to shed more light on it. :beer: Well, I was bored and had been mulling this over in my head and I figured if I put it out here, someone who knew something might be able to shed more light on it.

:beer:

]]> By: GBU43 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/#comment-107497 GBU43 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:03:17 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/#comment-107497 Hey Bash, Not bad. CnChess already mentioned the issue with the two types of iodine. Something else has to do with the seismic structure that nuclear detonations generate. All around the world we have these awesome detectors that look like fine piano wire going down deep into the earth. When a nuke goes off those vibrations are picked up and amplified. Nukes have a very particular "look". I'm pretty sure we can distinguish an accident from even a low low yield nuke. Now I wouldn't be surprised that the mine is a front for a place to test.. Just not a place to hide the test. Hey Bash,

Not bad. CnChess already mentioned the issue with the two types of iodine. Something else has to do with the seismic structure that nuclear detonations generate.

All around the world we have these awesome detectors that look like fine piano wire going down deep into the earth. When a nuke goes off those vibrations are picked up and amplified. Nukes have a very particular “look”. I’m pretty sure we can distinguish an accident from even a low low yield nuke.

Now I wouldn’t be surprised that the mine is a front for a place to test.. Just not a place to hide the test.

]]> By: Dr. Jerry https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/#comment-107831 Dr. Jerry Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:41:11 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/02/bash-wondersiranian-iodine-mines-a-cover-for-nuke-weps-testing/#comment-107831 Bash, Good eye and good article. I am a former NBC officer at a Battalion or S2 level. One of the issued items, for anyone around any nuclear materials; such as weapons, production, or medial operations, is "Iodine Tablets." (They were also issued items, during the Cold War, to troops in the field who might be exposed to a nuclear blast) Radiation exposure settles in the Thyroid Gland, iodine combats the exposure, in the Thyroid, and can be life saving, if taken soon after exposure and taken properly. Now, wouldn't if be quite a coincidence, if the Iranian iodine production was for their own use, medicinally or prophylactically. Mining their own iodine means they do not have to rely on the drug from the rest of the world and no one would know how much they were using or giving out, in advance, to the populace. Bash,

Good eye and good article.

I am a former NBC officer at a Battalion or S2 level. One of the issued items, for anyone around any nuclear materials; such as weapons, production, or medial operations, is “Iodine Tablets.” (They were also issued items, during the Cold War, to troops in the field who might be exposed to a nuclear blast) Radiation exposure settles in the Thyroid Gland, iodine combats the exposure, in the Thyroid, and can be life saving, if taken soon after exposure and taken properly.

Now, wouldn’t if be quite a coincidence, if the Iranian iodine production was for their own use, medicinally or prophylactically. Mining their own iodine means they do not have to rely on the drug from the rest of the world and no one would know how much they were using or giving out, in advance, to the populace.

]]>