Depleted uranium

Its even cheaper to use it as ammunition and effectively "dump" it in foreign nations... the problems this caused for Iraq after even the gulf war was amazing.... still hardly anyone reports on it because its "bad for buisness"

I think we should put it all at the bottom of the ocean. I know that sounds really bad but the ocean is actually full of uranium thats were we get most of it. If we put all our uranium in the ocean it wouldn't even be a measurable increase. Plus, its the deep hole we need already there for us. I agree that it needs to be as far away from people as possible and I think this is a reasonable solution. But I'm sure someone will tell me why I'm a moron and i hate the world.

some of the most horrific deformities i have ever seen are due to natal exposure to this poison.

tome erau - we have already dumped far too many toxic wastes of all kinds in the oceans as it is. Adding hundreds of thousands of tons of depleted uranium (which is far more toxic than natural uranium) will only make things far, far worse. As it is, we are already fast destroying the fauna of the oceans through our pollution and through over-fishing. Sea-food is now toxic as it contains high levels of mercury and dioxin - adding depleted uranium to this already ghastly soup will make all sea-food inedible, but that won't stop people from fishing and eating it, which spells genetic disaster followed by extinction of most of the humans in the world.

No, dumping it in the ocean is a very bad idea.

i do not think utah needs any more help with its village of the damned look alike contest...

how about we find a better solution to this... i dont know like unmanned sun missions loaded with this crap let it burn up in space.

You know, our water is already polluted with waste and drugs and drug fragments. All the stuff people take, goes trough the sewers and into the water table.
Where it will be joined by these various, poisonous wastes.
Perhaps there is a bright side - all this stuff was manufactured from nature - and perhaps it will more clearly integrate itself once again - in time.

Getting people to do a huge political turn-around and do a carefully arranged world clean-up, - the same people who thought to make money by taking part in the manufacturing of it in the first place...

One might think that it is wonderful that we happen to have been born before humanity's dime is due.

Unfortunately, we only live once and maybe it's best to get out in the sun and enjoy yourself, - before the rain comes.

y not bury it in the space station, we can send it up with the shuttle as it gives spare parts lol

Does depleted uranium constitute a WMD?

I grew up in Utah and remember when all this was going down, I was pretty young but even then though to myself, Why don't they give a crap about Utah? Real people live here too...

Wow...get a more current photo...the navy hasn't used dungaree pants with the utilities since the early nineties. Then again, since the Navy, along with the rest military no longer utilizes DU, I guess its the best available.

Wow humans seem to be so great at making inventions and furthering things for humanity, but what about the long term effects of this? We rarely look into the long-term future to see if what we are doing is truly good for us. This will definitely come back to bite us all in the ass, and if this article is 100% correct it will bite us in the ass very soon.

du is u238. it's called depleted because the rare isotope of u235 has been removed for bombs and reactors. uranium is naturally in the environment, mostly found in granite locked in zircon crystals. granite gives off mild radiation, more than sunlight. u238 is the most common isotope of uranium because it has the longest "half life "( how long it takes for half to burn up and turn to lead ).
just because we don't have any way to use it's power now doesn't mean we won't. put this poison away with all nuclear waste in a secure location like a salt mine. there's too much to fire into space. uranium is part of the earth, it powers the movement of continents and the building of mountains. it's radiation kills life but it also causes mutations that drive the engine of evolution. it is like the scorpion, it has it's place but not anywhere near me.

You know what else you can do with depleted uranium? Make tanks out of it. It's worked pretty well so far. Also, depleted uranium produces less radiation than natural uranium. Finally, I'd like to point out that the article specifically says, "every couple of millenniums". We'd better get right on that then

DU is the most insidious compound being added to weaponry that we have. It not only threatens the very fabric of the lives of our soldiers, but all those that America wars against. So many innocent people being poisoned for the sake of "Shock and Awe".