More information on Depleted UraniumNo. The amounts would not be measurable for the most part nor are they intended to be monitored and no, there is no such legislation. It is the DOE and the NRC that set the "allowable levels" and they are presently planning to weaken their own regulations in order to accomplish this disgraceful policy. These federal agencies appointed by the President and approved by the senate have complete power over the setting of regulations and levels allowed; even to defining terms such as "low" and "high" levels. "low level" radioactive waste includes the reactor itself. That is misleading because these metals are very radioactive. They also are contaminated with dangerously harmful alpha and beta particles from many of the hundreds of radionuclides created by the fissioning process. Inside the metals are highly radioactive "hot spots", often called "fleas". De-contaminating the metals do not eliminate all of them and cleaning the outside simply removes some radwaste and washes it out as waste into sewers to be released into the environment ie the groundwater, or if it is incinerated, into the air to be breathed and or ingested. The public will be contaminated by increasing accumulation of radiation exposure. There is NO lowest level at which ionizing radiation can do no harm. Those most immediately endangered are workers who drill, etc., into these metals. The most vulnerable segments of the population are foetuses in utero, growing children, the aged, and those whose immune systems are weak, as well as those with genetic weaknesses. For reliable information, look up works by Dr. Ernest Sternglass' "Secret Fallout", Dr. Jay Gould's "The enemy within," Dr. Rosalie Bertell, "No Immediate Danger" , Harvey Wasserman's "Killing Our Own", Dr. John Gofman "Poison power" and other titles. Contact Nuclear Information Resource Sevice and your local anti-nuclear group for resources. If you have trouble locating the above titles, we have a lending library and can arrange to send you information. Mitzi (Coordinator, Don't Waste Connecticut) > From: Angeltoad@aol.com > To: du-list@egroups.com > Subject: [du-list] Du in consumer goods > Date: Sunday, June 13, 1999 11:03 AM > > Would the amount of DU used in these things be measurable with a geiger > counter or something? > Surely theremust be some legislation that prohibits this sort of recycling? > > AT > > In a message dated 13/06/99 06:25:00, you write: > > << The recycling of du into consumer and industrial products is > part of an insidious policy by the DOE and NRC to spread radioactive waste > products into everyone's environment. That includes the recycling of > radioactive metals from reactors, melting it down with other scrap metal > and selling it to producers of IUDs, dental braces, spoons, whatever. > There's big $$ in it for corporations. This policy will make it very > difficult to identify the specific causes of increased cancers, cns > diseases, birth defects and syndromes like "Gulf War Syndrome". Mitzi > >> 
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