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To: stockman_scott who wrote (50910)	10/10/2002 6:07:31 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

it has a half-life of 4.5 billion years ...meaning that U-238 emits about as much radiation as the background radiation of the universe. In short, it's not radioactive at all. Pure scare tactics aimed at the scientifically illiterate.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (50910)	10/11/2002 7:56:06 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh my god Scott!!! Depleted Uranium-238??!!!! Is that, like, wow... like "natural" Uranium, maaannn?? Doesn't that mean that, uhhh... that "natural" uranium ISN'T depleted?? web.ead.anl.gov Sounds like the governments of the world, or at least the US, must IMMEDIATELY EMBARK upon a program to locate and containerize ALL POTENTIAL SOURCES of U-238 regardless of the cost... It's vital to our ecology that we dig it up whereever we find it and repair and remmediate nature's own poor containment procedures... Even if that means cutting down the rain forest, and excavating huge strip mines... Whatever is required to remove this terrible threat to humanity... I mean... like what was Mother Nature thinking man??? You can't just bury that stuff without putting it some kind of container or something..... Can we sue Nature?? Hawk