Re: more bad news re DU


oppenheimers ghost wrote:

"Essentially, if you get a heavy metal stuck on DNA, you can
get a mutation," Stearns explained. While other heavy metals are known to
bind to DNA, Stearns and her team were the first to identify this
characteristic with uranium.

Depleted uranium - what is left over when the highly radioactive isotopes
of uranium are removed - is widely used by the military. Anti-tank
weapons, tank armor and ammunition rounds are just some of the
applications.

Unfortunately, there are two things that you have not made clear.

Firstly, you have made no mention of the pathway in which uranium as
an atmospheric pollutant can penetrate cell walls.

Secondly, when you commented on the radiactive potassium problem (40K)
in the human body - which is present within cells - you dismissed the
effect on the grounds that, as the 40K was spread throughout the human
body, it was 'very dilute' and therefore of little effect.

Why is 40K within cells 'very dilute' and therefore poses low risk,
but that uranium present within cells not dilute and so highly
dangerous?

Methinks you have not thought through your arguments, or even fully
grasped either what you have read or how to apply it.
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