Soldier's cancer death linked to depleted uranium (DU)

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Soldier's cancer death linked to depleted uranium (DU)
By Thomas Harding

September 13, 2009

Soldier's cancer linked to Gulf War, inquest

A report is to be sent to the Defence Secretary after an inquest jury found a former soldier’s cancer was caused by service during the 1991 Gulf War.

The death of Stuart Dyson, a 39-year-old former soldier, from a rare from of cancer was caused by his exposure to depleted uranium used in military munitions, an inquest jury ruled.

The jury heard that Mr Dyson, a lance corporal in the Royal Pioneer Corps, cleaned tanks after the first Gulf War during a five-month deployment to the war zone.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/6169481/Soldiers-cancer-linked-to-Gulf-War-inquest.html

[jwirr]

1. What I have never understood is why they thought that this would

end any other way. Radiation poisoning has been recognized from the very beginning. The people who developed this us of Uranium are guilty of murder.

[immoderate]

2. Who says they thought?

Depleted uranium actually doesn't kill with radiation poisoning. Well, it can, but it's unlikely. As a (very) heavy metal, it's quite toxic in itself, worse than lead or mercury. On impact in forms an aerosol, easily breathed in. While the radiation from DU is relatively mild, it's concentration in the lung would probably rival it's toxic effects as a carcinogen.

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or nuclear physicist, and this mask is on the side of the law.

--imm