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  Not necessarily biased, but not particularly brilliant, either
 
From: (URL) looming controversy: U.S. and allied use of depleted uranium in bunker-busting bombs and artillery rounds. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the uranium that fuels nuclear reactors. It turns to fine dust when shells made from the hard, (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  DU is/is not a problem?
 
(...) This [HM Government funded] report's author was on Radio 4 the other night. His study was a desk study; parts of which have been superseded by a UN report: (URL) also conceded that the model he had used was unreliable, that he was not always (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: DU is/is not a problem?
 
(...) ==+== Professor Brian Spratt, chairman of the Royal Society working group on depleted uranium, said that a recent study by the society had found that the majority of soldiers were unlikely to be exposed to dangerous levels of depleted uranium (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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