Radioactives in Fluoride Used in Drinking Water

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Radioactives in " Fluoride " Used in Drinking Water

 

 

 

 

 

Below is from Iodine list. Fluoride used in drinking water is

industrial waste which contains radioactives, among other things.

 

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There definitely seems to be some evidence that phosphate fertilizers

-- and fluoride -- have radioactive contaminants. So, the fluoride

being added to our drinking water -- and thereby to everything watered

by that water as well as the direct drinking of it -- is even more

dangerous than I thought.

 

Iodine can protect against pure fluoride, but I don't think that

iodine can protect against these other serious problems with the

fluoride being added to our water. I don't know if there is a way to

protect against them other than to avoid water that has been

fluoridated -- and the foods grown with this water and with phosphate

fertilizers. And that is close to impossible in 21st century America.

 

We need to educate ourselves and others on this issue.

 

 

" Phosphate fertilizer manufacturing and mining are not environment

friendly operations. Fluorides and radionuclides are the primary toxic

pollutants from the manufacture of phosphate fertilizer in Central

Florida. People living near the fertilizer plants and mines,

experience lung cancer and leukemia rates that are double the state

average. Much of West Central Florida has become a toxic waste dump

for phosphate fertilizer manufacturers. Federal and state pollution

regulations have been modified to accommodate phosphate fertilizer

production and use: These regulations have included using recovered

pollution for water fluoridation.

 

" Radium wastes from filtration systems at phosphate fertilizer

facilities are among the most radioactive types of naturally occurring

radioactive material (NORM) wastes. The radium wastes are so

concentrated, they cannot be disposed of at the one US landfill

licensed to accept NORM wastes, so manufacturers dump the radioactive

wastes in acidic ponds atop 200-foot-high gypsum stacks. The federal

government has no rules for its disposal. "

 

 

" The EPA and the US Public Health Service waived all testing

procedures and - with the help of the American Dental Association

(ADA) - encouraged cities to add the radioactive concentrate into

America's drinking water as an " improved " form of fluoride. "

 

" In promoting the use of the pollution concentrate as a fluoridation

agent, the ADA, Federal agencies and manufacturers failed to mention

that it was radioactive. Whenever uranium is found in nature as a

component of a mineral, a host of other radionuclides are always found

in the mineral in various stages of decay. Uranium and all of its

decay-rate products are found in phosphate rock, fluorosilicic acid

and phosphate fertilizer.

 

" During wet-process manufacturing, trace amounts of radium and uranium

are captured in the pollution scrubber. This process was the subject

of an article by H.F. Denzinger, H. J. König and G.E. Krüger in the

fertilizer industry journal, Phosphorus & Potassium (No. 103,

Sept./Oct. 1979) discussed how radionuclides are carried into the

fluorosilicic acid.

 

" While the uranium and radium in fluorosilicic acid are known

carcinogens, two decay products of uranium are even more carcinogenic:

radon-222 and polonium-210.

 

" During the acidulation process that creates phosphoric acid, radon

gas contained in the phosphate pebble can be released in greater

proportions than other decay-rate products (radionuclides) and carried

over into the fluorosilicic acid. Polonium may also be captured in

greater quantities during scrubbing operations because, like radon, it

can readily combine with fluoride.

 

" In written communications to the author, EPA Office of Drinking Water

official Joseph A. Cotruvo and Public Health Service fluoridation

engineer Thomas Reeves have acknowledged the presence of radionuclides

in fluorosilicic acid. "

 

http://www.bolenreport.net/feature_articles/feature_article030.htm

 

 

 

" Radium wastes from filtration systems at phosphate fertilizer

facilities are among the most radioactive types of naturally occurring

radioactive material (NORM) wastes. The radium wastes are so

concentrated, they cannot be disposed of at the one US landfill

licensed to accept NORM wastes, so manufacturers dump the radioactive

wastes in acidic ponds atop 200-foot-high gypsum stacks. The federal

government has no rules for its disposal. "

 

" In promoting the use of the pollution concentrate as a fluoridation

agent, the ADA, Federal agencies and manufacturers failed to mention

that it was radioactive. Whenever uranium is found in nature as a

component of a mineral, a host of other radionuclides are always found

in the mineral in various stages of decay. Uranium and all of its

decay-rate products are found in phosphate rock, fluorosilicic acid

and phosphate fertilizer.

 

" During wet-process manufacturing, trace amounts of radium and uranium

are captured in the pollution scrubber. This process was the subject

of an article by H.F. Denzinger, H. J. König and G.E. Krüger in the

fertilizer industry journal, Phosphorus & Potassium (No. 103,

Sept./Oct. 1979) discussed how radionuclides are carried into the

fluorosilicic acid.

 

" While the uranium and radium in fluorosilicic acid are known

carcinogens, two decay products of uranium are even more carcinogenic:

radon-222 and polonium-210. "

 

 

 

" Radon-222 is not an immediate threat because it stops emitting alpha

radiation and decays into lead-214 in 3.86 days. Lead-214 appears to

be harmless but it eventually decays into bismuth-214 and then into

polonium-214. Unless someone knew to look for specific isotopes, no

one would know that a transmutation into the polonium isotope had

occurred.

 

" Polonium-210, a decay product of bismuth-210, has a half-life of 138

days and gives off intense alpha radiation as it decays into regular

lead and becomes stable. Any polonium-210 that might be present in the

phosphate concentrate could pose a significant health threat. A very

small amount of polonium-210 can be very dangerous, giving off 5,000

times more alpha radiation than the same amount of radium. As little

as 0.03 microcuries (6.8 trillionths of a gram) of polonium-210 can be

carcinogenic to humans.

 

" The lead isotope behaves like calcium in the body. It may be stored

in the bones for years before turning into polonium-210 and triggering

a carcinogenic release of alpha radiation.

 

" Drinking water fluoridated with fluorosilicic acid contains radon at

every sequence of its decay to polonium. The fresher the pollution

concentrate, the more polonium it will contain.

 

" As long as the amount of contaminants added to the drinking water

(including radionuclides in fluorosilicic acid) do not exceed the

limits set forth in the Safe Drinking Water Act, the EPA has no

regulatory problem with the use of any contaminated products for

drinking water treatment. "

 

 

 

" The fluorosilicic acid is also contaminated with small traces of

arsenic, cadmium, mercury, lead, sulfates, iron and phosphorous, not

to mention radionuclides. Some contaminants have the potential to

react with the hexafluorosilicate radical and may act as complex ionic

compounds. The biological fates and toxicokinetic properties of these

complex ions are unknown. "

 

http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/fluoride/fluoride_phosphates.html