As one who has managed field surveys for DU, they do, in fact, emit enough
gammas to be seen with most any gamma detector. We generally use NaI. Don't
recall the isotopes that emit gammas, but they are there. Please put brain
in gear, before putting mouth/keyboard in motion.
In a message dated 1/7/2001 7:46:46 AM Pacific Standard Time,
radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu writes:
We keep hearing this CRAP about depleted Uranium from Scientific Geniuses
who
probably don't even know what "Depleted Uranium" is!!!!! One proof is
people
who wave a Geiger counter around in the air; when DU is an alpha emitter!
As
all of you know, it has roughly 7 Gammas (low energy and rarely emitted),
two
major alphas of about 4 MeV energy which matter, but are easily stopped if
not ingested/inhaled, and five Betas (0.1 to 2.3 MeV). It takes 3 tons to
produce even one Curie of emission! Several reports have shown there is no
serious radiation risk (this is also self-evident), but it is quite a
hazard
(nephrotoxin) as is any heavy metal (pure toxicity),like lead etc. etc.
etc.
It's time we dumped these "ambulance chasers". Ed Battle
Joel I. Cehn, CHP
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