Uranium isn't toxic, right?

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I mean, they use spent uranium in bullets and stuff.

If I recall correctly, all it really does is just give off heat as it decays.

Think they could grind it up and put it in pavement just enough to just make the asphalt warn so in the winter months, people wouldn't have to plow.

Err, no, why dont you type depleted uranium into google?, whatever you do if you are a young person, DONT click on the images of what depleted uranium is doing to the babies born in those lucky countries that are experiencing American brought "democracy".

It has a half life of 4.468 billion years so Iraq will never be a threat to Israel again.

alright then. I am wrong and you're superior. I bow to you.

Goodness no, Iam not superior, I just visit Jeff Rense.com where I see all this usefull stuff.

Wow. I had no idea ... and then our own troops and their offspring suffer in the very same ways.

Very ugly.

Depleted Uranium is chemically toxic as well as radioactive. It is nastier than lead but not as bad as plutonium which is one of the most chemically harmful elements we have at our disposal. You definitely do not want to breath in Uranium dust such as fills the air after an A-10 blasts and enemy tank to smithereens with kinetic energy alone. The DUI round has given a specially meaning to the term "kinetic kill weapon".

Death to the enemies of the Republic.

Delenda Islama est.

ruveyn

Video: “The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 681767408#

Depleted uranium is also used for balancing aircraft, with anywhere from 0.5 to 1.5 tons in the wing-tips of some commercial airliners. This has caused concern where aircraft have crashed, especially crashed and burned, in populated areas. (The amounts released in Amsterdam, 1992, were the minutest fraction of that deliberately atomized in Iraq or Afghanistan).

Even if Uranium were safe its kinda rare and expensive to be used an ingredient in road asphalt ( kinda like using diamonds for landfill).

Not when its depleted, they have tons of the stuff, and its hard to get rid of, its probably a reason they are so keen to make weapons from it, its one way to get rid of the stuff.

DU is also used as counterbalances on the wings of large commercial airplanes. That is not a weapons application.

ruveyn

Weapon or not, if a plane crashes that is radiation being emitted. Maybe there are different materials available which would work. Then the silly question arises "can we afford it? no we can't" when we should always jump straight to the resource aspect.

Every little bit adds up and it does us no good, unless it is being used safely in the new style of fission reactors and hopefully soon fusion,

Radiation may be contributing to health problems we have today.There have been 2053 Nuclear Explosions from 1945 to 1998.

Possibly more by now.

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No above ground nuclear explosions subsequent to 1960 by virtue of an international treaty. Only the Chinese and the No. Koreans have exploded nukes above ground since then. Just a few shots. The radiation released since 1960 is in trivial amounts.

ruveyn