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

Steven Dapra sjd at swcp.com
Mon Aug 11 19:55:29 CDT 2008


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
>---------
> > 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.







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