[ RadSafe ] The last word on DU

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

Thank you, Prof. Raabe, for this information.  I hope that the
presentation will be made widely available. 

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Subject: [ RadSafe ] The last word on DU

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
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
E-Mail: ograabe at ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7754   FAX: (530) 758-6140 
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