[ RadSafe ] Re: The last word on DU

[John Jacobus]

Dr. Raabe,
I really doubt this will be the last word on DU.  You
cannot keep a good controversy down, e.g., who were
the others who fired at JFK in Dallas, etc.  

--- Otto  Raabe <ograabe at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> 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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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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