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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 741331" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>Economics really doesn't come into the equation, or the health of the world population.</p><p></p><p><em>The use of DU in munitions is controversial because of questions about potential long-term health effects.[4][5] Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems can be affected by uranium exposure, because uranium is a toxic metal.[6] It is weakly radioactive and remains so because of its long physical half-life (4.468 billion years for uranium-238). The biological half-life (the average time it takes for the human body to eliminate half the amount in the body) for uranium is about 15 days.[7] The aerosol produced during impact and combustion of depleted uranium munitions can potentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites leading to possible inhalation by human beings.[8] During a three week period of conflict in 2003 in Iraq, 1,000 to 2,000 tonnes of DU munitions were used.[9]</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The chemical toxicity of depleted uranium is about a million times greater in vitro than its radiological hazard</em></p><p></p><p>_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium</p><p></p><p>The aggregate industry has also developed Ducrete, or depleted Uranium concrete, which will be making it's way into various buildings around the world soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 741331, member: 175144"] Economics really doesn't come into the equation, or the health of the world population. [I]The use of DU in munitions is controversial because of questions about potential long-term health effects.[4][5] Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems can be affected by uranium exposure, because uranium is a toxic metal.[6] It is weakly radioactive and remains so because of its long physical half-life (4.468 billion years for uranium-238). The biological half-life (the average time it takes for the human body to eliminate half the amount in the body) for uranium is about 15 days.[7] The aerosol produced during impact and combustion of depleted uranium munitions can potentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites leading to possible inhalation by human beings.[8] During a three week period of conflict in 2003 in Iraq, 1,000 to 2,000 tonnes of DU munitions were used.[9] The chemical toxicity of depleted uranium is about a million times greater in vitro than its radiological hazard[/I] _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium The aggregate industry has also developed Ducrete, or depleted Uranium concrete, which will be making it's way into various buildings around the world soon. [/QUOTE]
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