RE: Handling DU

[Hans Honerlah <hansbh1@yahoo.com>]

The US Army Environmental Policy Institute published a
document titled Health and Environmental Consequences
of Depleted Uranium Use in the U.S. Army: Technical
Report (June1995).  It discusses many items specific
to DU use in the Army but also has some discussion on
the properties and characteristics of DU.  Also,
Health and Environmental issues related to DU both
chemical and radiological concerns.

Hans Honerlah
Health Physicist
USACE 

--- "Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov> wrote:
> You might contact Randy Janke at Fernald -- email
> randy.janke@fernald.gov.
> They handle a lot of uranium metal. 
> 
> Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
> Sandia National Laboratories 
> MS 0718, POB 5800
> Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
> 505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
> rfweine@sandia.gov
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: marvinturkanis@alum.mit.edu
> [mailto:marvinturkanis@alum.mit.edu]
> Sent: December 23, 1999 4:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Handling DU
> 
> 
> I am looking for experiences with and protocols for
> handling depleted
> uranium in massive forms, such as trimmers bars when
> remanufacturing
> teletherapy collimators. There is no machining.
> drilling, or chemical
> treatments involved, only manual handling the bars.
> 
> The concern is uranium chemical toxicity not its
> radioactivity.
>
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