Re: Can Somebody Explain this to me . . . .

[BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 4/11/2004 2:36:25 PM Pacific Standard Time, 

LNMolino@AOL.COM writes:

bottom line is even if you have exposure to DU via inhalation post a DU round 

in use you will not develop a true radiation sickness, correct?

That is correct.  If by "true radiation sickness," you mean that sickness 

associated with a high dose of radiation in a very short time, which is what 

professional health physicists would generally mean by "radiation sickness," and 

which sickness is reasonably well-defined and diagnosable.  Exposure to DU, via 

routine use of DU munitions is not really a viable means of inducing true 

radiation sickness under any scenario.



Barbara L. Hamrick, CHP