The Meatball Preacher wrote:
"SeeingEyeDog" wrote in message
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Probably will not be long before reports start circulating that the US
somehow used Agent Orange in Fallujah and parts of Iraq, as well.

We do know that the US has been using depleted uranium [DU]
in several types of ordinance. Nasty crap. Has a half life of
about 50K Years and atomizes into fine particles when it
is dispersed by the resulting explosive charge around which the
shaped DU is wrapped. Nice ****. Great way to get rid of
the depleted nuclear waste from our reactors eh folks ???


DU is 0.7 times as radioactive as natural uranium, which is considered
"slightly radioactive". Since DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years,
there is very little decay of those DU.

DU does not atomize. Recent research suggests that the particles of DU
when pulverized by such actions a armor impacts are too large to be
retained in the human body for any appreciable time and will be
rejected. If so, there is little or no danger that DU will build up in
a human even with repeated exposures.