Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:42:09 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Depleted Uranium




On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Aaron Micheau wrote:

>  Carp, on his own
> initiative, narrowed the inquiry to whether and to what extent DU is
> radioactive, which is, obviously, not much,  hence the "depleted" part.


Ah, ta-ta.  I was responding to a post about creating a "radioactive
wasteland" in the balkans.  If you din't post those wirdz, someone did.
Brian introduced the toxicity debate.  None of this stuff is as toxic as
the lead poisoning a lot of ethnic albanians are getting from being
'cleansed," though.

Plus, when you run the numbers even the regular toxicity of DU is nothing
to compare with all of the crap that's poured out of the
non-enviromentally friendly Romanian and Yugoslavian chemical plants over
the last 50 years. The burning of the chemical refineries will cause more
damage than DU, but there are big parts of the place in the plume of those
plants that were already Seriously Unhealthy.

You can't just take all of these things out of context and say "That ONE"
is a porblem.  The war isn't helping, by any means, but this was not some
prisitine, virgin wilderness.

I'll post this little DU thing someone sent me from the U$ DoD this
evening when I'm home and can retrieve it.   Yes, it's DoD, but it is a
source for the advocates of anti-DU too.


carpo