[ RadSafe ] uranium solubility and acute and chronic exposures on the Russia-Georgia border

[Steven Dapra]

Aug. 11

         You are correct, of course, Bjorn.  The problem is that James 
Salsman is obsessed with depleted uranium.  Perhaps he even believes it is 
the father of all evil.  I do not know.

Steven Dapra



At 11:59 PM 8/11/08 +0000, Bjorn Cedervall wrote:

>The problem is not about radiation from DU - it is about people shooting 
>and bombing each other.
>DU is off topic as the major character of the tragic conflict isn't a 
>radiation issue. If there are
>radioactive atoms coming from DU - that aspect is totally insignificant in 
>this context. You have
>plenty of natural radioactive atoms in the soil around you - that should 
>be enough to provide some
>hints.
>
>If you are trying to imply that a mutation burden could lead to some 
>genetic changes on a population
>level it just tells that you haven't studied any of the key messages from 
>the evolution biologists and
>what they developed over the last 80 years.
>
>My personal ideas only,
>
>Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafer at hotmail.com
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> > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:14:32 -0700> From: BenjB4 at gmail.com> To: 
> radsafe at radlab.nl> Subject: [ RadSafe ] uranium solubility and acute and 
> chronic exposures on the Russia-Georgia border> > Were both sides using 
> DU in this conflict? I'd like to see a> watershed map of Europe and Asia 
> and concentrations in the adjacent> sea and sand.> > A single dose of 
> uranyl can result in reproductive toxicity, so the> effect is not limited 
> to chronic exposure.