Quote:In my researches on it, I concur totally - it's a lot like asbestos, in that the material itself isn't terribly hazardous, but breathing/consuming the dust resulting from it can be Bad Mojo.
DU frankly has all sorts of useful applications
As for the nonmilitary uses of DU - check this out.
Aircraft ballast.
makes sense, when you think about it. DU is damn near the densest thing available, and throw a thin lead sheath and a thin rubber coating over a brick of it, and you have a very compact (saves space) very heavy brick to balance your plane with. Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979