Re: again DU and fire

["R. Russ" <rruss@stanford.edu>]

I'm wondering if this question is based on the concerns and the very WILD 
speculation coming out of the Israeli El Al crash which happened in the
Netherlands sometime back? The DU counterweight in the tail section of the
crashed aircraft supposedly was the cause of several 'mysterious' medical
symptoms experienced by many (oh...maybe it was thousands) of people living
in the neighborhood where the craft went down.

The unproven maladies assumed to be associated with the crash have often
been cited by anti-nuke groups as an example of why DU bullets pose a
'significant' health risk to people living in areas of the world where
they've been used.

Ray Russ
SLAC OHP Group

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> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 02:42:12 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Mauro Campoleoni <trentino@iol.it>
> To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: again DU and fire
> Message-ID: <l03130300b43b253f2345@[151.23.0.46]>
>
> Hallo to you all.
> I'm having again problems with DU used in civil aircraft as tailplane.
> The question post by the firemen is:
> what happens in case of a fire? what do the firemen risk in case
> of extinguishing the fire of such an airplane? What about contamination
> or inhalation?
>
> Has anybody already faced this problem?
> Thanks for suggestions.
>
> Mauro.
>
> 
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