[ RadSafe ] UN Report Falsely Claims that DU is "Very Dangerous"

[Roger Helbig]

This comes from Secretary General's report which is almost as inflammatory 
as a Rokke/Moret/Busby guest appearance.  Seems like politics, not science 
rules.  It concludes that "DU is very dangerous" because it is pure uranium 
metal, not uranium ore or dirt.

5. The enrichment process produces an extraordinary volume of depleted

uranium with a very low percentage of U-235 compared to U-238. Even so, when

the ratios (between the two isotopes) are compared with that found in 
nature, where

uranium is mixed with tens of hundreds of tons of extraneous material, it 
can be

concluded that depleted uranium is very dangerous