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

[Carrol Cox]

Dwayne Monroe
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Fully informed activists who're trying to bring attention to DU as a
hazard are talking about the dust that remains after a shell, for
example, with a DU coated warhead is destroyed on impact with a target
leaving radioactive dust, which can enter the body quite easily, strewn
about.  Dust in the air, dust settling on food and in water and other
ingested liguids.

So, read carefully, even the statements of a goverment body confirm the
assertions of the most informed DU
activitists.

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The dust may be quite dangerous independently of any radioactivity.
Heavy metals in the lungs, radioactive or not, are not good. And uranium
is certainly a heavy metal. That's why it makes such a useful shell
casing -- it's molecules are tightly packed.

Carrol