[lbo-talk] [Fwd: [PEN-L] cobalt, uranium]

[Devine, James]

>The depleted uranium thing is just not legitimate.  Scientists work with
hotter stuff all the time.  Radiologists work with hotter stuff all the
time.  No, nobody recommends getting depleted uranium fragments under your
skin, but the radiation they produce is eminently measurable and the effects
relatively well-understood.  Depleted uranium shells are nothing like dirty
bombs.  If depleted uranium was contaminating large areas, anybody with a
Geiger counter could prove it.  That hasn't happened because depleted
uranium is not all that dangerous.<

the problem with DU is not the radiation as much as the fact that it's a heavy metal (and thus toxic) that people can inhale (and thus makes people sicker).

Jim D.

 

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