Do  you think they know of the health effects of depleted uranium?
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If you are really interested in this topic, I recommend reading "The Plutonium Files," a recently published book. It reports on the negative health effects of uranium and plutonium, specifically the results of secret tests performed on civilian citizens and members of the military, by our government. (Almost all of whom were unaware they had unwittingly become guinea pigs.) Very interesting and informative.
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It depends on who you listen to. In government funded studies, the effects of depleted uranium are negligible. In privately funded studies, they are extreme. \n\nThe problem with most studies on DU is the delivery method. Simply placing someone in a room with a DU munition will have little to no effect. When that munition is detonated, however, it releases an aerosol of fine uranium oxide that is breathable and spreads great distances by wind until weighted down by rain, where it falls to the ground and is absorbed into soil or water sources. \n\nThe use of DU is illegal under all international agreements, treaties, and covenants and it is illegal even under U.S. military law regarding WMDs. It breaches the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Charter, the Genocide Convention, the Convention against Torture, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980, and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.\n\nIn the three-week Gulf War in 1991, just 467 U.S. personnel were reported as wounded. Of the 696,778 GIs who served in that war, more than 11,000 are now dead, at least 20,6861 have applied for VA medical benefits. As of May 2002, 159,238 veterans have been awarded service-connected disability by the Department of Veterans Affairs for health effects collectively known as the Gulf War Syndrome.. New cases are arising by an astounding 43,000 per year. Veterans of the conflicts in the Gulf, Bosnia and Kosovo have been found to have up to 14 times the usual level of chromosome abnormalities in their genes. That has raised fears they will pass cancers and genetic illnesses to their offspring.In the months and years following Desert Storm, thousands of babies have been born to vets with horrible deformities (missing limbs, one eye, missing ears, incomplete or missing organs - reminiscent of the Thalidomide babies of the 1950s - but in far greater numbers. In 1995, Iraqi health officials reported alarmingly high increases in rare and unknown diseases, primarily in children, and presented a study of this state of affairs to the United Nations. The increases occurred in leukemia, carcinoma, cancers of the lung and digestive system, late-term miscarriages, congenital diseases, and deformities in fetuses, such as anencephaly (absence of a brain), and fused fingers and toes, not unlike those found in the babies of Gulf War veterans.\n\nedit:\nLike someone after me said, DU radiation is blocked by the skin. But if DU dust is inhaled, consumed on food or in water, or in fragments in vets, the alpha, beta and gamma radiation cannot be blocked by the skin. Most studies have looked at the effect of DU outside the body, not inside. Some have said, like my "cut and paste" from gulfwarvets.com, that DU dust exposure is responsible for "Gulf War Syndrome". One thing is for certain, high levels of radiation inside the body leads to chromosone damage and cancer. The question is: How much is too much?
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ther is enough depleted uranium to make a cockroach nervous there
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OMG!!!!!!!!  They definitely cause cancer.  Do some research on the internet and then let us know what you think.  I'm pretty sure you'll quit going.
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Health, and weapons.  Have you looked at Wikipedia.com?
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If you mean what I think you mean, then the answer is yes.  Experts are still arguing about what they release.  Some think it's just urine, but other studies have found that there's very little urine.  Personally, I think it's just an excess of lubricant.
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nuclear energy is dangerous to the health, and people worry there is leakage, and there will be sometime in the future.
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I think that the answer must be YES.\n\nLet's assume that  these are dry cell batteries (so they are not losing any matter by evaoporation or gaining any by using oxygen in the atmosphere.\n\nSo no particles get in or out of the battery.  However, the battery, once spent, has lost some energy (perhaps by powering a torch which then gives out light and heat energy).\n\nAccording to Einstein's famous equation, E=mc^2.  So this amount of energy must be equivalent to (an extremely small) quantity of matter and the mass of the battery must have reduced by this amount.  It will not be measurable in ordinary circumstances and I am sure that other factors (eg dust particles settling on it, etc) would FAR outweigh this mass of the released energy.  But theoretically, yes, it would weigh less.\n\nOne gets a similar kind of balance in radioactive decay; a uranium nucleus decays into some other bits and pieces but the mass of the other bits and pieces is slightly less than the mass of the original uranium nucleus in order to account for the energy that is released (in the form of EM radiation).\n\nHope this makes sense.
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I would sign up for it as long as it had no or little radiation.. I don't wanna get cancer from it.. It should just tell my blood cells things.. like if i know im ill but they don't.. then i can tell them via thought.. that would help a lot.. also to control heartbeat.. hard to die then.
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We already have. Depleted Uranium is classified as a nuclear (or nu-cu-ler for you Bush fans) weapon.\n\nAccording to a August 2002 report by the UN subcommission, laws which are breached by the use of DU shells include: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention; the Convention Against Torture; the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980; and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which expressly forbid employing 'poison or poisoned weapons' and 'arms, projectiles or materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering'. All of these laws are designed to spare civilians from unwarranted suffering in armed conflicts.\n\nIn 1991, the Allies fired 944,000 DU rounds or some 2700 tons of DU tipped bombs. A UK Atomic Energy Authority report said that some 500,000 people would die before the end of this century, due to radioactive debris left in the desert.
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Yes- you can read about them here\nhttp://www.tc-cancer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1023&goto=nextnewest
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No. The body metabolizes light metals quite well. The aluminum present in the brain is coincidental; it is not a cause.
526111
Yes, one it is enriched and now radioactive because an atom has been split. I don't know the science. Two people still need to go in and get more uranium. There is a plan to bury it all in an abandoned mine, of limestone I believe to limit the leakage. The problem with burying it all in one place and setting up a perimmiter in this dead zone is that a) it will still spread/ leak. b) shipping stuff from all over the US to one place in the southwest is very risky. Now it is all required to stay on site at each nuclear plant in the special barrels. The plan for transport is very thourough but still not a pleasing idea. If a truck crashes/ terrorist/ whatever goes wrong you will severly contaminate a large area, 50 mile radius or more. \n\nWould you like to know the plan for shipment? Well here it is. First we've got super buckets to carry it in. Big red plastic looking capsules. We ran them over with a train. Didn't break. Was funny to see a huge red thing fly through the air though. Geographers used computer mapping to find routes that were the quickest but also went through the least populated areas. The final decision was based mainly on the least population and it doesn't travel through major cities. Many objected about going through suburban areas but in some cases there just wasn't enough farm land to pass through without having to make such a detour that it would take a long time and effect more population. The highways and streets it must pass through will be closed to traffic and the trucks will be escorted by military. If your local highway is closed for somereason chances are it's passing through your neighborhood.
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Radionucleides.  The only time you might ordinarily be exposed to them is during a medical proceedure wherein the radiation they emit is a desired aspect.  Those proceedures are either for diagnostic purposes or theraputic purposes.  \n\nBad for you?  No, the amount of radiation your body is exposed to during such an exam is quite minimal.  On the other hand, theraputic radiation is very, very carefully controlled and administered.  In the past, folks sometimes experienced quite a bit of discomfort during radiation therapy.  That's much less the case now, and we have medicines to help what discomfort there is - medicines that simply were not avaliable until recently.\n\nThat having been said, there's been a lot of fuss and bother over the possibility of someone "exploding a dirty bomb",  meaning a device that might spread radioactive particles over a wide area.  Despite Homeland Security's attempts to panic us, that is very, very, VERY unlikely.  So is a nuclear accident like Three Mile Island twenty or so years ago - and Three Mile Island, frightening as it was for people living nearby, left nobody outside the plant sick from radiation - nobody.  But a serious accident COULD result in many, many serious injuries and deaths.  The proper response is for surrounding communities to have in place a proper disaster response plan that may include mass evacuation and prophylactic medicines in stock.  Unfortunately, despite all the hype and all the promises, vitually no community has done squat to properly prepare for either a nuclear accident or a deliberate attempt an spreading nuclear-contaminated materal.  Sure as can be, the Federal government has done virtually nothing worthwhile in that respect!   The stinkers...
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your first question is somewhat political so i am not answering that but your second question ,that's physics so i will answer that.\nthe radioactive elements have this special property called half-life.\ni will use this eg to explain it.\nthink that you have in your hand 1kg of uranium(dont show that to bush)and assuming its half-life to be around  thousand years ,you will find that after 1000years the uranium in your hand will have decayed and only 0.5kg of the total will be left.and it keeps on like that.so it kinda never ends.Hope you understood.
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It was low-enriched uranium, not weapons grade. So the answer is NONE. No nukes with THAT uranium. It would have to be enriched , and would amount to a miniscule amount after that.\n\n"could potentially be used in a radiological dispersal device," or dirty bomb.
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never, uranium deteriorates in what is known as half lifes..a half life is the amount of time it takes for half of uranium. to deteriorate. it's half life is like 15000 years. half of the remaining  uranium will take \nanother 15000 years. and so......search for half lifes