If DEPLETED URANIUM did not cause
"Desert Storm Syndrome",
why are the medical researchers calling it
"Gulf War Syndrome"?
Tis a shell game like calling "French Indo-china" Vietnam, the "A.E.C." N.R.C.
or your mother-in-law mother.
_____Happy Fathers' Day if you are sick after fighting in the war on terror and your doctor is confused as to why you are sick. Read "Hiroshima" by John Hershey. You will see yourself in that book.
Dr. Heng told Dr. Durakovic, “Your five 1991 Desert Storm Veterans (blue in the bar chart above) have worse chrosome damage than my average “Chemo Therapy Patient” here at Wayne State.”
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Dr. D. then asked, “Can this be attributed to exposure to alpha particles in lungs?” Once DEPLETED URANIUM is in your lungs there is only one way to get that poison out of your body -- LUNG TRANSPLANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dr. D. then asked, “Can this be attributed to exposure to alpha particles in lungs?” Once DEPLETED URANIUM is in your lungs there is only one way to get that poison out of your body -- LUNG TRANSPLANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you know which rocks snakes like to hide under, you can avoid milking a rattlesnake by looking unde the wrong kind of rocks. Uranium is a rock. Smoke from destroyed armored vehicles have alpha particles from DEPLETED URANIUM that goes airborne every time the wind blows.
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DU and NDU -- Depleted Uranium (DU)
Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process.
Presently there is no acceptable solution for safe disposal of radioactive waste. The laws and precautions governing its use have largely been discarded since large-scale military use made them impractical. Depleted uranium is also now being made available to be recycled as an element going into manufacturing of consumer or industrial products.
The enrichment process also creates small quantities of the man-made isotopes U236 and plutonium (Pu239). These isotopes are included in the “depleted” uranium mass as it is too expensive to extract them.
For every gram of enriched uranium that is produced there are 7 grams of depleted uranium. This results in huge stockpiles of radioactive waste. It is estimated that there is over one million tons of DU stockpiled in the U.S. The quantities of plutonium in these stockpiles are a well-kept secret. It is routinely measured but not publicly reported.
Isotope Composition, Chemical Half-lives and Isotope Ratios in Natural and Depleted Uranium
ISOTOPE NATURAL DEPLETED HALF-LIFE
U-238 99.2749% 99.7947% 4.49 billion years
U-235 0.7196% 0.2015% 710 million years
U-234 0.0055% 0.0008% 248,000 years
Non-Depleted Uranium (NDU)
Non-depleted uranium is uranium with a U238/U235 isotopic ratio comparable to natural uranium but having quantities of U236 and presumably plutonium.
U236 is a man-made element not found in nature. It's presence suggests that the uranium has been through a reactor or has been mixed with reactor by-products.
While some studies have shown that U236 may be produced in nature by natural reactors, the quantity of U236 is 10,000 times less than the amount UMRC is measuring in NDU.
DU and NDU -- Depleted Uranium (DU)
Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process.
Presently there is no acceptable solution for safe disposal of radioactive waste. The laws and precautions governing its use have largely been discarded since large-scale military use made them impractical. Depleted uranium is also now being made available to be recycled as an element going into manufacturing of consumer or industrial products.
The enrichment process also creates small quantities of the man-made isotopes U236 and plutonium (Pu239). These isotopes are included in the “depleted” uranium mass as it is too expensive to extract them.
For every gram of enriched uranium that is produced there are 7 grams of depleted uranium. This results in huge stockpiles of radioactive waste. It is estimated that there is over one million tons of DU stockpiled in the U.S. The quantities of plutonium in these stockpiles are a well-kept secret. It is routinely measured but not publicly reported.
Isotope Composition, Chemical Half-lives and Isotope Ratios in Natural and Depleted Uranium
ISOTOPE NATURAL DEPLETED HALF-LIFE
U-238 99.2749% 99.7947% 4.49 billion years
U-235 0.7196% 0.2015% 710 million years
U-234 0.0055% 0.0008% 248,000 years
Non-Depleted Uranium (NDU)
Non-depleted uranium is uranium with a U238/U235 isotopic ratio comparable to natural uranium but having quantities of U236 and presumably plutonium.
U236 is a man-made element not found in nature. It's presence suggests that the uranium has been through a reactor or has been mixed with reactor by-products.
While some studies have shown that U236 may be produced in nature by natural reactors, the quantity of U236 is 10,000 times less than the amount UMRC is measuring in NDU.
