[ RadSafe ] The last word on DU

[Otto Raabe]

July 11, 2007

Ron Kathren's paper "Acute Toxicity of Uranium: "A Brief Review  with 
Special Reference to Man" delivered today at the annual meeting of 
the Health Physics Society in Portland, Oregon, (WAM-C.2) is must 
reading for all the DU alarmists.

After almost 200 years of toxicological study, the best description 
is still the one given by Gmelin in 1824: "a feeble poison". Ron's 
review of the literature that includes human exposures to soluble 
forms of uranium reveals that "no human is known to have died from 
exposure to uranium." Also, the radioactivity of uranium is not 
relevant to toxicity unless it is at least 15% enriched in U-235.

Otto

Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
Center for Health & the Environment
University of California
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Davis, CA 95616
E-Mail: ograabe at ucdavis.edu
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