Health Dangers Of Radioactive Beryllium Be10, Be8, Be7, Be13, As It Decays Into Radioactive Carbon, A Global Warming Element

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TOXIC BERYLLIUM OXIDE

It has been documented over the last thirty years that exposure to Beryllium Oxide is harmful and potentially deadly. Brush Wellman, a Beryllium Oxide manufacturer, has a horrible past of endangering its workers. Poisoned: The Workers of Brush Wellman explores a Brush Wellman ceramics plant located in an area on the Southside of Tucson, Arizona which has a long past of environmental contamination. Two former Brush Wellman workers who have contracted Beryliosis as a result of their hazardous exposure to Berylium tell of Brush Wellman's careless attitude toward its workers and how their lives and the lives of their family will never be the same.

TOXIC BERYLLIUM DANGERS IN RENTED AUTOMOTIVE RAGS

BERYLLIUM CERAMICS MAY BE TOXIC?

RADIOACTIVE BERYLLIUM

Man made beryllium is used in nuclear power plants as a part of fuel rod covers, along with zirconium. Beryllium is also used in nuclear bombs. Beryllium has a decay chain that goes down through carbon, which adds to the carbon cycle global warming tipping point.

Wikipedia; "Nuclear explosions also form 10Be by the reaction of fast neutrons with 13C in the carbon dioxide in air. This is one of the indicators of past activity at nuclear weapon test sites.[10] The isotope 7Be (half-life 53 days) is also cosmogenic, and shows an atmospheric abundance linked to sunspots, much like 10Be.

8Be has a very short half-life of about 7×10−17 s that contributes to its significant cosmological role, as elements heavier than beryllium could not have been produced by nuclear fusion in the Big Bang.[11] This is due to the lack of sufficient time during the Big Bang's nucleosynthesis phase to produce carbon by the fusion of 4He nuclei and the very low concentrations of available beryllium-8. (In other words, Beryllium 8 can produce radioactive carbon) 

The shortest-lived known isotope of beryllium is 13Be which decays through neutron emission. It has a half-life of 2.7 × 10−21 s. 6Be is also very short-lived with a half-life of 5.0 × 10−21 s.[14] The exotic isotopes 11Be and 14Be are known to exhibit a nuclear halo.[15] This phenomenon can be understood as the nuclei of 11Be and 14Be have, respectively, 1 and 4 neutrons orbiting substantially outside the classical Fermi 'waterdrop' model of the nucleus. 

USE IN NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Thin plates or foils of beryllium are sometimes used in nuclear weapon designs as the very outer layer of the plutonium pits in the primary stages of thermonuclear bombs, placed to surround the fissile material. These layers of beryllium are good "pushers" for the implosion of the plutonium-239, and they are also good neutron reflectors, just as they are in beryllium-moderated nuclear reactors.[69]

USE IN NUCLEAR LABS

Beryllium is also commonly used in some neutron sources in laboratory devices in which relatively few neutrons are needed (rather than having to use a nuclear reactor, or a particle accelerator-powered neutron generator). For this purpose, a target of beryllium-9 is bombarded with energetic alpha particles from a radioisotope such as polonium-210, radium-226, plutonium-239, or americium-241. In the nuclear reaction that occurs, a beryllium nucleus is transmuted into carbon-12, and one free neutron is emitted, traveling in about the same direction as the alpha particle was heading. 

Such alpha decay driven beryllium neutron sources, named "urchin"neutron initiators, were used some in early atomic bombs.[69] Neutron sources in which beryllium is bombarded with gamma rays from a gamma decay radioisotope, are also used to produce laboratory neutrons.[70]

Isotopes of beryllium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_beryllium

USE IN NUCLEAR REACTORS

Beryllium has also been proposed as a cladding material for nuclear fuel rods, because of its good combination of mechanical, chemical, and nuclear properties.[5] Beryllium fluoride is one of the constituent salts of the eutectic salt mixture FLiBe, which is used as a solvent, moderator and coolant in many hypothetical molten salt reactor designs, including the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR).[72]

USE IN NUCLEAR FUEL

Beryllium oxide is also being studied for use in increasing the thermal conductivity of uranium dioxide nuclear fuel pellets.[80]Beryllium compounds were used in fluorescent lighting tubes, but this use was discontinued because of the disease berylliosis which developed in the workers who were making the tubes.[81]" 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllium

CREATES NEUTRON RAYS

Beryllium has the capacity to act as a neutron 'lens'. In other words, if gamma or XRay radiation is shooting through a beryllium layer such as when it is used around fuel inside a nuclear reactor or a nuclear bomb, it emits neutrons as that radiation hits it. Those neutrons emit from the Beryllium and go LONG distances, because neutrons are not blocked by anything.

CREATES GLOBAL WARMING ELEMENT

Those neutron rays or particles then shoot out and hit other non radioactive elements, such as stable Carbon 12, making it radioactive, and turning it into Carbon 14, which then causes harm, just like radioactive strontium, cesium or plutonium. 

Radioactive Carbon 14 From Nuclear Power Plants Causing Deforestation, Disease And Death Of Plants and Trees Globally; via @AGreenRoad

http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/05/carbon-14-emitted-by-nuclear-power.html

This is just another way that nuclear reactors add to the global warming tipping point, but actually make it much worse, because radioactive carbon 14 also harms or kills plants and trees.

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Health Dangers Of Radioactive Beryllium Be10, Be8, Be7, Be13, As It Decays Into Radioactive Carbon, A Global Warming Element

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