Re: DU Facts

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@lanl.gov>]

At 10:46 AM 11/16/00 -0600, you wrote:
>On the flip side, there aren't many large masses of natural uranium flying
>around to make a fair comparison.

At Los Alamos, DU is routinely exploded and imploded in a wide variety of
outdoor tests. Nevertheless, the air samples almost always detect natural
uranium and not DU.

mike
Mike McNaughton
Los Alamos National Lab.
email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
phone: (505)667-6130
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