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Date: Monday, January 15, 2001 4:40 AM
Subject: U.S. Military Web Censorship?


DEPLETED URANIUM ALERT
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From: asterion@ntlworld.com (Francisco Javier Bernal) Date: Mon, Jan
15, 2001, 10:48am (EST+5) To: kevcross@webtv.net, rrozoff@webtv.net
Subject: (Fwd) <nettime> US web censorship? DU-alert
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nettime-l@bbs.thing.net From:
Hans-Peter Schnelboegl <future@nor.com.au> (by way of s|a|m
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web censorship? DU-alert Send reply to: Hans-Peter
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Web censorship by US military?
Two US- based email lists on depleted uranium have stopped operating.

The lists du-list@egroups.com and du.watch@listbot.com stopped
completely.

In the last few weeks there was a lot of interest in the use of Depleted
Uranium ammunition in Bosnia (1995) and Kosovo (1999). Many European
peace keepers have contracted leukemia, and at least 15 have already
died from the disease. This shouldn't be a surprise for those
who kept informed about the many leukemia cases after the Gulf War, both
under exposed soldiers and civilians (including many Iraqui children).
The US military, which used the DU ammunition, always denied any
significant hazards. In the last few days documents have been circulated
on various email lists showing the American government's knowledge of
the DU-hazards.
Following the shut-down of the email lists, it becomes important to
spread the information via other internet channels. I am going to
forward some of the recent emails to our lists (active and ausinuke).
The longer emails will be available only on ausinuke due to size limits
on active.
To start it up, here is some background information on DU:
DU(1) - Depleted Uranium, Background information
SUMMARY:
DU is a waste product of nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear weapons
production.
It consisits to some 99.8% of uranium-238, which has a
half-life of 4.5
billion (4500 million) years. Uranium-238 is highly dangerous both
becauseof its radiological and chemical toxicity. It's radiation is not
any different from that of the uranium-238 in uranium ore - just some
100 to 2000 times more concentrated. However, DU is millions of times
more dangerous than it was in the original uranium ore because of its
modified consistency (gas or combustible metal or dispersible fine
powder). All these forms have the ability to enter the human body via
inhalation or food chain, which is a precondition for the uranium's most
dangerous alpha radiation to become effective as well as for the
chemical toxicity. In contrast, the uranium in the uranium ore has very
little chance to get inside the human body.
The nuclear industry-government has by now accumulated vast quantities
(close to a million tonnes) of DU, for which safe storage is impossible.
To limit the ever-increasing and costly DU stockpile, considerable
efforts have been made to find applications for DU. Military and
civilian use of DU have further increased the hazards. The most
dangerous application of DU is its use for ammunition cores: On impact,
the DU combusts and disperses, largely as a very fine aerosol, causing
cancer and a great variety of other diseases. The Gulf War Syndrome and
Balkans War Syndrome are suspected to be caused by DU ammunition. In
both wars, the US used DU ammunition extensively. The harmful effect of
DU ammunition will continue for billions of years after the war as the
dispersed fine powder has little tendency to transform back into
something as stable as uranium ore. DU war is war against all future,
and in that respect worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In the last few weeks the use of DU ammunition by the US has received
great publicity as more and more of the former European peacekeepers in
the Balkans come down with leukemia. A number of European countries have
launched their own investigation into DU ammunition hazards, among
others Portugal, Italy, Sweden, France,Germany, Finland, Turkey and
Bulgaria. Some of these investigations may be rather a means to appease
the public outrage than an attempt to investigate the issue, others may
be genuine. The Portugese government refused to hand over the body of a
soldier, which had died from leukemia, to his parents for radiation
testing. Obviously, this is suspicious and any subsequent
investigation, especially during an election camoaign, is under doubt.
The US, supported by Great Britain, have vigorously denied any
significant hazards from DU. The US Defense Department quotet in a
report last month "No human cancer of any type has ever been seen as a
result of exposure to natural or depleted uranium." Such absurd
statements fired back. In the last few days the situation further
escalated when US documents were uncovered (and released on various
anti-nuclear email lists) which prooved that the US government was aware
of the very significant risks from DU ammunnition. Also, it has become
clear that the peace keeping in Kosovo was arranged in such a way that
US troops were kept out of contaminated areas while European troops were
sent in - without adequate information.
The Australian government has been using DU ammunition for a while but
laudibly phased it out some 15 years ago because of the associated
dangers.
This would have hardly happened under John Howard who does
not mind the
massive futurecide involved with uranium mining (uranium tailings pose
hazards very similar to DU)....
SOME DETAILS ON DU
1) DU, a waste product of nuclear power and nuclear weapons production
The yellowcake or uranium oxide - as produced in Australia
- consists of a mix of three different uranium isotopes which are in
fixed proportions to each other. These proportions are the same for all
uranium deposits on this planet and are unsuitable both for the
production of the uranium-based nuclear bomb and as fuel for nuclear
reactors (which are required to produce the plutonium for the
plutonium-based bomb). To make the yellowcake suitable for these
purposes, the proportion of uranium-235 needs to be increased while the
proportion of uranium-238 and to a lesser extent that of uranium-234
have to be decreased. This is achieved during the 'enrichment' of
uranium.
With the yellowcake consisting to some 99.3% of uranium-238, this means
that most of the yellowcake becomes waste, the so-called Depleted
Uranium (DU).
Some figures on DU:
By mass, the uranium content of typical DU (as used for ammunition)
consists to some 99.8% of Uranium-238 (HL [halflife] = 4500 million
years) some 0.2% of U-235 (HL = 700 million years) some 0.0009% of U-234
(HL = 245 000 years)
However, the activity of DU comes to
some 85% from U-238
some 14% from U-234
some 1% from U-235.
2) DU can't be stored safely
As is clear from the above figures, the mass composition and the
activity composition of DU are dominated by the isotope uranium-238.
Uranium-238 has a half life of 4500 million years and is very dangerous,
both radiologically and chemically. It is obvious that nothing can be
stored safely for 4500 million years.
DU appears in three principle forms:
- as the gaseous uranium hexafluoride which is leaking from countless
tanks around enrichment facilities - as combustable DU metal after
conversion from the gas - as uranium oxide powder, ready to be dispersed
into water, air and food chain. It is obvious that all three forms are
unstable and therefore can't be stored safely.
So far, close to a million tonnes of DU have been accumulated worldwide.
It can become subject to severest accidents, military attacks,
bushfires, earthquake ... It is obvious that such a quantity of a highly
toxic and radioactive substance can't be stored safely.
Considering the extremely long half-life, the unstable consistency, the
very large quantities and the very high radiological and chemical
toxicity, the accumulation of DU can only be seen as futurecide - the
mass murder on countless people from future generations.
3) DU usage
To limit the ever-increasing and costly DU stockpile, considerable
efforts have been made to find applications for DU, the main ones being:
- Counterweights in aeroplanes - Ballast in yachts - Ammunition cores
All of these usages have vastly increased the DU hazards. Planes and
ships can crash, as did a passenger plane with DU in an Amsterdam
suburb. Ammunition is deliberately designed and used to kill and maim
(see next paragraph). The eventual disposal of the DU wastes after
civilian / military usage becomes even more hazardous where not
impossible.
----- to be continued as DU(2) later this week -----
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