DU is a byproduct from "enriched" uranium, which is used to create
components for nuclear weapons.
Depleted Uranium has 40 percent less Uranium-235 than it had whilst
"natural." This do not mean it is less radioactive, only that it has
less Uranium-235: a genuine heavy metal, at about 1.7 times the weight
of lead.
Depleted Uranium Oxide is in fact a troubling substance linked to Cancer
deaths from the use of Deplete Uranium rounds. When a round impacts
with a target about 40% of the round is converted to Uranium Oxide.
Fears in the UK's Guardian about Depleted Uranium rounds in Iraq:
<http://tinyurl.com/z60g>
A piece on deplete Uranium and cancer on Vieques (were I served on
combined forces operations as a USAF weatherman:
<http://tinyurl.com/3dgxy>
Here's an Australian Department of Defense piece on the risks.
<http://tinyurl.com/2v6wq>
I sure wouldn't be using the stuff without a respirator and appropriate
protective measures/clothing.
Keith Krebs
"Just some guy," caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo
Publications), at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/
and the Multiverse's largest Canon printer User Community at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Canon-printers
"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together
guys"
Received on Mon Mar 29 09:08:11 2004
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