Reply #18: no flames here either but the embers

[Bluerthanblue]

that were the fire (pardon my over-use of metaphor)
Uranium is not a 'good' thing for humans-
Depleted or not-
My father had his PhD in Analytical Chemistry- graduated in the 50's when one really had to sweat their thesis' and from Rutgers-

He initially poo-pooed any "tree-huggers" "knee-jerk" responses to the dangers of many chemicals and elements that began to become questionable- He worked with MANY really 'nasty' things- and the older he got, the less he 'bought' the government line- the 'testing' that was often skewed, and censored to 'not scare people'-

Would you believe he even received x-ray treatments from his father who was a MD. to treat his cystic acne??? Being red-haired and fair skinned, AND a farm boy in the 30's and 40's probably contributed as much to the skin cancer he developed, but the x-rays couldn't have 'helped'.

There is one thing i believe about radio-active elements- and that is we have NO real understanding of how harmful they truly are- and until we do ALOT of honest- if frightening, or disappointing research, we shouldn't be playing with something FAR more potentially devastating than 'fire'.