"Tamas Feher" wrote in message
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Hello,

Uranium is a heavy metal similar in toxicity
to lead and cadmium and is used in
glassmaking and pottery for colouring.

Uranium is unique, because it burns at high temperatures and turns into
a smoke-like very fine dust. This dust goes deep into your lungs while
you breathe and causes cancer due to a combination of radiation and
chemical toxicity.

That is completely and totally untrue for a number of reasons.

First of all, most of this 'dust' you're talking about self-ignites on
contact with the air.

Second of all, ALL the physiological harm one may experience from DU is
related to it's properties as a heavy metal, NOT it's alleged
'radioactivity'. In reality, it is less radioactive than dirt.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...nitions/du.htm


This does not happen with tungsten (wolfram) or lead.

They are heavy metals, so they pose the exact same risk as DU.


Question: is there any shooting range inside the CONUS with live DU
pratice?

All shooting ranges in the US (and NATO) have stopped using heavy-metals in
all of their training rounds (including small arms). DU was never used as a
training round to begin with because it is too valuable. The M1 sabot
practice round uses a steel core and behaves exactly as the live round
would.