Spent Uranium used in power production, is being sold and made into weapons by US companies. These weapons have been used in the wars of 1991, 1999,2001 and 2003. These weapons keep on killing after the initial attack. They have been banned by a UN council for that reason, these weapons do not differentiate between friend and foe. By making weapons of DU, the US is effectively dumping its nuke waste on other countries in the name of democracy.
I bring this up because that a recent report has said that Iran gave up its nuke weapon program back in 2003, shortly after the invasion and occupation of its neighbor, Iraq. Now that they are only in search of nuke power, they are more docile than we had been lead to believe. I am pleased that the truth has come out and that the chest thumping of Bush and the Boyz has been silenced.
But the waste from their civilian nuke power plants can be made into a weapon, and these weapons can be sold or given to what the US sees as "bad guys". My point is they may not be in search of a nuke warhead, but they can still make a nuke weapon out of the DU. The gift that keeps on giving long after it is used.
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This entire post is misleading and not factual. DU is not "nuke" waste; it is classed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as Class A radioactive waste. Class A is the lowest classification of radioactive waste and the NRC has permitted the disposal of DU contaminated tank targets in a conventional hazardous (not radiological) waste disposal site.
DU kinetic energy penetrator weapons have not killed anyone that was not sitting in a tank or armored personnel carrier that was attacked. No one has died from DU contamination.
DU kinetic energy penetrators and DU armor have not been banned by the UN. A Committee, heavily influenced by false information presented by San Francisco activist attorney Karen Parker censured the use of DU in some manner. This action did not have the force of international law.
DU kinetic energy penetrators definitely discriminate between friend and foe. Many US/UK tank crews are still alive because a first shot Iraqi tank shell bounced off their tank and the DU penetrator killed the Iraqi tank before it could fire a second round.
The US is not effectively dumping nuclear waste when it uses DU. The DU rounds would have been cleaned up off the battlefield had there been a safe environment to deploy clean up crews. Iraq refused UN assistance in this regard and also refused UN medical teams.
It is not possible to make a nuke weapon out of DU. DU is uranium that does not spontaneously fission. A nuclear weapon, an "atomic bomb" uses either Highly Enriched Uranium or Plutonium. A nuclear weapon explodes due to spontaneous fission when a critical mass is produced by exerting sudden intense pressure. DU is not a nuclear weapon. It does not explode. It is extremely dense and pyrophoric and it can cause explosions because of a combination of the shock of explosives or fuel being hit with tremendous kinetic energy and/or from the heat generated when the DU penetrator goes through the tank's armor. That is not the same as exploding itself.
If you would like to learn more about DU and what actually does happen go to the following links:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/DUStory/message/40
the first two, one a report of use of DU in Kuwait - the other of use of DU in Boznia-Herzegovina will provide solid scientific fact about the subject
Depleted Uranium in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Postconflict
Assessment- 300 pg detailed UN Environmental Programme Report
http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/BiH_DU_report.pdf
Radiological Conditions in Areas of Kuwait With Residues of Depleted
Uranium - Includes Appendix III - Experiments to Examine Resuspension
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1164_web.pdf
sorry but a bullet that is radioactive is a "nuke"
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