Posted on 01/11/2005 9:23:00 AM PST by saltedtorture
DU is hurting our troops! But not the DU your use to hearing about on FR, NO!. I'm talking about depleted uranium! You see this is the real danger to our boys on the front lines not some a$$hat lefty website. You can ignore it all you want but you are only hurting our brave soldiers.
Atomic Annie (known as the Grable test). That is one of my favorite nuclear tests.
Quoting En Vogue. Wow, that's deep.
What we have here, folks, is one of the great minds of our time. Let's show it the respect it deserves.
En Vogue quotes: ALWAYS a precursor to a ZOTting.
This forum ain't big enough for the both of us, pilgrim.
Let's explore this shall we? As a Former Marine (1st Tank Battalion) who was constantly exposed to DU...I think that SOME of the claims are unfounded...but let's do some searching on the reality of DU.
Uranium is a weakly radioactive element that occurs naturally in the environment. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) for the Department of Health and Human Services estimates there are an average of 4 tons of uranium in the top foot of soil in every square mile of land. A heavy metal similar to tungsten and lead, uranium occurs in soils in typical concentrations of a few parts per million (equivalent to about half a teaspoon of uranium in a typical 8-cubic yard dump truck-load of dirt).
Uranium - Each of us ingests and inhales natural uranium every day from our air, water, food, and soil. The amount varies depending on the amount found where you live, and where the food you eat and the water you drink are produced. Consequently, each of us has some uranium in our body, and we eliminate some in our urine every day.
Depleted Uranium - This very dense metal (1.7 times as dense as lead) is a by-product of the process by which uranium is enriched to produce reactor fuel and nuclear weapons components. The leftover uranium, 40% less radioactive than natural uranium, is called "depleted uranium," or DU. The Department of Energy (DOE) recently reported that the DU it provided to DoD for manufacturing armor plates and munitions may contain trace levels (a few parts per billion ) of contaminants including neptunium, plutonium, americium, technitium-99 and uranium-236. From a radiological perspective, these contaminants in DU add less than one percent to the radioactivity of DU itself. Medical scientists consider this insignificant.
Department of State statement: http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/18869.htm
Editorial:
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0201-01.htm
Study from 1998:
http://www.web-light.nl/VISIE/DUREPORT/mirror_dureport.html
So, I don't know. Maybe it is...maybe it isn't. One thing I do know is that everyone in Tank Battalion had baby boys. Not a single girl. Weird, huh?
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You Libs are hypocrites.
Depleted uranium can hurt you, I guess, but only if you drop it on your foot. There's guys in San Francisco that do other stuff with it, you know what I mean? But I don't think the UCMJ lets the troops do that.
Well, what are you waiting for?
Depleted uranium actually is used in armoring the Abrams tank.
great link
Drivel, bland tasteless drivel.
Not enough ketchup in the world can make this one taste any good.
Just kidding with you, just kidding with you!!!!
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