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Ron Kathren's paper "Acute Toxicity of Uranium: "A Brief Review with Special Reference to Man" delivered today at the annual meeting of the Health Physics Society in Portland, Oregon, (WAM-C.2) is must reading for all the DU alarmists.
After almost 200 years of toxicological study, the best description is still the one given by Gmelin in 1824: "a feeble poison". Ron's review of the literature that includes human exposures to soluble forms of uranium reveals that "no human is known to have died from exposure to uranium." Also, the radioactivity of uranium is not relevant to toxicity unless it is at least 15% enriched in U-235.
Otto
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