[ RadSafe ] uranium combustion product inhalation

[John Jacobus]

When I at a research facility during my time in the
Navy, we received a call from a Naval Command.  During
a war exercise, one of our ships accidently fired DU
rounds at another of our ships.  One man was killed
and another lost an arm.  The command was concerned
about the internal alpha contamination.  We thought
that was the least of the problems.

--- ×‘×¨×™×§× ×¨ דב <brickner at smile.net.il> wrote:

> Dear Franz and list
> Both DU and tungsten projectiles kill by
> "conventional " hazards - direct hit of fragments
> and fire or explosion of ammunition in the affected
> vehicle. About 22 soldeirs in the 1st Gulf war were
> injured by DU fragmnets - none suffered renal
> toxicity to the best of my knowledge.
> I agree that my prime concern (as an MD) in case of
> exposure to DU projectile hit (without visible
> injury)is to avoid chemical injury.
> Tungsten was used in projectiles in the past (and
> perhaps is still in use - thanks God I have left the
> army business), with modern armor I doubt it is
> still as effective as DU, but this is off off topic.
> Dov Brickner     MD
> Beer-Sheva   ISRAEL
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of
> Franz Sch?nhofer
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 1:40 AM
> To: Steven Dapra
> Cc: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] uranium combustion product
> inhalation
> 
> Steven,
> 
> The DU "bullets" and projectiles are made to
> effectively kill people. Is
> there nobody on RADSAFE who understands this very
> basic fact?
> 
> The second basic fact, which obviously nobody out
> there and not even the
> creme de la creme of radiaton protection which one
> would expect at RADSAFE
> seems to understand: Uranium is much more chemotoxic
> than radiotoxic. DU is
> even less radiotoxic than natural uranium, whilst
> its chemotoxicity is the
> same. We could take this very simple conclusion from
> scientific facts, that
> somebody poisoned by uranium would rather suffer or
> die from chemotoxicity
> of uranium before the radiotoxicity would be able to
> affect the persons
> health.
> 
> ANYBODY AT RADSAFE STILL NOT UNDERSTANDING THIS
> SIMPLE FACT??????? In spite
> of this clear statement I am reasonable enough to be
> aware that we will have
> tomorrow the same discussions about the "radioactive
> DU".
> 
> So what is all this discussion about? We have to
> live with these people who
> have very good contacts to mass media stars and
> contribute their nonsense -
> not only in the USA but to some extent in Europe as
> well. But judging from
> our US collegues at this international forum they do
> not dare to simply say,
> "This is nonsense, because chemotoxicity of uranium
> as a heavy metal would
> be much more detrimental than due to its
> radioactivity". The idea of
> developing tungsten projectiles is an even worse
> perversion of the weapons
> industry - in order to kill people "politically
> correctly" without the
> drawback of perceived risk to own fighters millions
> of $ are spent.
> 
> I better stop here.....
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>

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-- John F. Kennedy 

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


 
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