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Since I decided to support the proposed Exelon nuclear project in Victoria I have received quite a bit of emails from those opposed to the project. Most had and still have valid concerns that should be addressed.
However, interspersed with those valid concerns were the, all too often, typical pile-on "facts" about the nuclear subject. One of those incredible claims, debunked many times before, is that U.S. military forces are poisoning Iraqi children with depleted uranium artillery ammunition.
"Depleted Uranium(DU) is considerably less radioactive than natural uranium because not only does it have less U-234 and U-235 per unit mass than does natural uranium, but in addition, essentially all traces of decay products beyond U-234 and TH-231 have been removed during extraction and chemical processing of the uranium prior to enrichment. The specific activity of uranium alone in DU is 14.8 Bq. per mg compared to 25.4 Bq. per mg for natural uranium. It...
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