You interested, Ustwo, in testing that and spreading some DU shells around your back yard for your newborn to play in as he grows up? In Iraq in 1989 there were 11 birth defects per 100,000 births; in 2001 there were 116 per 100,000 births. Would you like to take that chance?
Just do the google search for DU + birth defects
google search done for you
DU shell holes now show 1000 times the normal background radiation. Recomended levels of radiation in a basement are 0.4 pCi/L. Homeowners are supposed to take action and mitigate these levels at 5 to 10 times this base. You wouldn't let your kid play in a radon basement with even 2.0 pCi/L. Why be so callous to those who play in an environment at 1000 times that level?
The DU does seem to easily get into the water supply. How do you avoid that? The fact that the DU burns up on impact, turning it into a ceramic dust is what makes this happen so easily. It can also get blown in the wind and just generally taken up in humans and lower order animals who make up the diet of humans. Good old food chain.
Depleted Uranium birth defects. How would you like to see your next child come out like this Ustwo?
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The U.S. Army acknowledges the hazards in their training manual, in which it requires that anyone who comes within 25 meters of any DU-contaminated equipment or terrain wear respiratory and skin protection, and states that "contamination will make food and water unsafe for consumption."
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Rokke and his primary team of about 100 performed their cleanup task without any specialized training or protective gear. Today, Rokke said, at least 30 members of the team are dead, and most of the others -- including Rokke -- have serious health problems.
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Infants born without brains, with their internal organs outside their bodies, without sexual organs, without spines.
Cancer has increased dramatically in southern Iraq. In 1988, 34 people died of cancer; in 1998, 450 died of cancer; in 2001 there were 603 cancer deaths.