Re: NATO admits it used depleted uranium in Kosovo

[Philip Hypes <phypes@lanl.gov>]

At 09:49 PM 3/22/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Please, WHAT is the big fuss about DU in weapons?  When one is getting
>shelled, it seems to me that the last thing one worries about is heavy metal
>poisoning or radiation damage.
>

The ironic thing is that anyone who isn't using DU is using tungsten, which
isn't exactly vitamin c either.  But, it's not radioactive (any more than
anything isn't radioactive, ignoring trace elements).  So to an ignorant
environmentalist, it must be better for people and the environment than DU.
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Philip Hypes
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Safeguards Science and Technology Group (NIS 5)
(505) 667-1556  phypes@lanl.gov

Opinions expressed are purely my own unless otherwise noted

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