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Re: OT Depleated Uranium and the VA
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| RicodJour 2005-12-21, 3:21 pm |
| Jim wrote:
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> DU has been used prior to both Gulf Wars, and started trial use after the
> Vietnam War. Dangers were known prior to any Gulf War of DU usage and long
> term storage near working and sleeping areas.
There was mention before GWII that the aging stockpile of munitions was
a disposal problem. Easiest way to get rid of explosives is to
detonate them - preferably very far away from where you are. If the
munitions have radioactive fallout, I'd want to be a large portion of
the world away, with the prevailing winds blowing away from me.
Sure it's just a coincidence...
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/faq_17apr.htm
"The voluntary Veterans Affairs DU Medical Follow-up program remains
the most important source for identifying potential untoward health
effects in those friendly-fire victims who have retained DU fragments.
About a quarter of the over 60 Level I exposed individuals who have
been evaluated still carry DU fragments in their bodies, and they have
elevated levels of urinary uranium nine years after the Gulf War. The
present health status of this cohort shows they have not developed
kidney abnormalities, leukemia, bone or lung cancer, or any classical
uranium-related adverse outcome."
Lethal levels of radiation show up almost immediately, lower levels
might take 20 or 30 years to show up.
R
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| Had alot of Marine buddies aboard ship when transporting them over there.
Some didn't make it back. Some were flown back in caskets, some for medical
care. When they finished and came back aboard, we were real quiet and let
them recover for a few days. I'll never lose respect for those guys. Those
and their comrades at arms were the brunt that took friendly DU
fragmentation.
Uncle Sam has been juggling for more than two decades what to do with
fission materials after usability to depletion.
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Jonny
"RicodJour" <ricodjour@worldemail.com> wrote in message
news:1135190709.654002.252810@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Jim wrote:
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> There was mention before GWII that the aging stockpile of munitions was
> a disposal problem. Easiest way to get rid of explosives is to
> detonate them - preferably very far away from where you are. If the
> munitions have radioactive fallout, I'd want to be a large portion of
> the world away, with the prevailing winds blowing away from me.
>
> Sure it's just a coincidence...
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> http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/faq_17apr.htm
> "The voluntary Veterans Affairs DU Medical Follow-up program remains
> the most important source for identifying potential untoward health
> effects in those friendly-fire victims who have retained DU fragments.
> About a quarter of the over 60 Level I exposed individuals who have
> been evaluated still carry DU fragments in their bodies, and they have
> elevated levels of urinary uranium nine years after the Gulf War. The
> present health status of this cohort shows they have not developed
> kidney abnormalities, leukemia, bone or lung cancer, or any classical
> uranium-related adverse outcome."
>
> Lethal levels of radiation show up almost immediately, lower levels
> might take 20 or 30 years to show up.
>
> R
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