AW: [ RadSafe ] Tungsten Alloy Munitions Pose Unforeseen Threat -NIHresearch

[Franz Schönhofer]

This discussion is disgusting. Are you advocating to kill people with
tungsten instead of depleted uranium? For the victims it will not make any
difference. 

Such an inhuman point of view is unacceptable for me. If this is your
opinion you should stop any messages about the risks of "background"
radiation and rather campaign for the end of wars, where whatever kind of
munition is used!!!!

Franz

Franz Schoenhofer
PhD, MR iR
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> Auftrag von James Salsman
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 01. Juni 2005 22:46
> An: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] Tungsten Alloy Munitions Pose Unforeseen Threat -
> NIHresearch
> 
> Stewart Farber wrote:
> 
> > Regarding the long-running depleted U issue health risk thread, see the
> > recently published research summary about tungsten alloy munitions [a
> > suggested "benign alternative" to depleted U] and tungsten's unexpected
> > health threats....
> 
> Tungsten isn't pyrophoric, so it doesn't doesn't produce inhalable
> vapors and dust when used as uranium does, and thus isn't likely to
> be a wide-ranging hazard to soldiers and civilians as uranium is.
> Shrapnel wounds are a risk, but less so overall.
> 
> Sincerely,
> James Salsman
> 
> > The intro paragraph and link is given below.
> >
> > Tungsten Alloy Munitions Pose Unforeseen Threat
> > In response to concerns about the human and environmental health effects
> > of materials used to produce munitions, countries including the United
> > States have begun replacing some lead- and depleted uranium-based
> > munitions with alternatives made of a tungsten alloy. But this solution
> > may not be the "magic bullet" it was once envisioned to be. Researchers
> >  from the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute and the Walter
> Reed
> > Army Institute of Research now report that weapons-grade tungsten alloy
> > produces aggressive metastatic tumors when surgically implanted into the
> > muscles of rats [EHP 113:729-734]. These findings raise new questions
> > about the possible consequences of tungsten exposure, and undermine the
> > view that tungsten alloy is a nontoxic alternative to depleted uranium
> and
> > lead.
> >
> > http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2005/113-6/ss.html#noma
> 
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