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Posted By: Christopher Bollyn <Send E-Mail>

Friday, 31 December 2004, 12:00 a.m.

 

The following document by Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist, and

Leuren Moret, a geo-scientist, provides a concise and essential explanation

of the biological response to depleted uranium (DU) particulate internal

exposure.

 

Military research laboratories report that the particulate effect of DU

causes 1 million times more damage than the expected damage from the

radiation effect alone - genetic damage. Cancer starts with a single alpha

particle under the right conditions.

 

The following letter was written by Marion Fulk, former scientist with the

Manhattan Project and nuclear physical chemist at the National [nuclear

weapons] Laboratory at Livermore, California.

 

The letter is addressed to Dr. Chris Busby, a radiation expert who has

written independent reports on low level radiation exposure for the British

government and the European Parliament.

 

The use of depleted uranium weapons is causing a nuclear holocaust, with a

global effect.

 

Leuren Moret,

Berkeley, California

 

December 14, 2004

 

Dr. Chris Busby

Green Audit

9 Prospect Street

Aberystwyth, Wales SY23 1JJ

United Kingdom

 

Dear Dr. Busby,

 

At your request, Marion Fulk and I are providing information and details

on internal exposure to depleted uranium particulates.

 

Mr. Fulk is a nuclear physical chemist, retired from the Lawrence

Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. He conducted

research on rainout of very fine radioactive particulates generated by

atmospheric testing for the Nuclear Weapons Program. He holds a high level

US Govt. clearance, and is an international expert on radiation and the

biological effects from internal exposure.

 

I am the Past President of the Association for Women Geoscientists, with a

background in the Geosciences. I have conducted extensive scientific

research on atmospheric dust, the transport and cycling of radionuclides

through the environment and through biological systems. I am recognized as

an international expert, on the impact on global public health and the

health of the environment, from radiation caused by atmospheric testing,

nuclear power plants and depleted uranium.

 

Mr. Fulk and I are actively conducting research on the particulate effect,

and internal radiation exposure. The particulate effect is newly recognized

as a result of studies on the biological and medical effects of depleted

uranium internal exposure.

 

THREE EFFECTS OF DEPLETED URANIUM INTERNAL EXPOSURE

Internal exposure to depleted uranium is known to have three separate

effects which may or may not act together, which may occur at different

times, or have delayed effects:

 

1. Chemical - changes in a substance due to an alteration of its chemical

composition caused by changes in its atoms or molecules;

 

2. Radiological - changes when the nucleus of an isotope undergoes

disintegration and releases energy in the form of alpha or beta particles

and/or gamma rays. About 30% of radiation damage to cells is caused by the

" bullet effect " of the alpha and beta particles tearing through the cells.

About 70% of the damage is caused by changes in the cells and biological

molecules from the energy dissipated along the pathway of the alpha and beta

particles, and gamma rays;

 

3. Particulate - changes caused by the particle size, the most harmful

being nano-particles which are defined as particles with a diameter of 0.1

micron and smaller.

 

Because you have already provided information about the chemical and

radiological effects detailed in the ECRR Report (2003) and the CHERRIE

Report (2004), this letter will primarily address the particulate effect.

 

THE PARTICULATE EFFECT

 

The " particulate effect " is a new phenomenon. It is now being recognized

from research on nano-particles and from the effects of battlefield and

downwind exposure to depleted uranium.

 

The resulting complex of diseases caused by depleted uranium and possible

chemical exposure is known as Gulf War Syndrome (Table

1).

 

Depleted uranium gas and dust, formed on the battlefield, produces large

numbers of extremely fine particles. The greatest number by mass on the

battlefield are formed in the nano-particle range - 0.1 microns and smaller

(1). Coincidentally, international funding and research in the new field of

nano-technology has also provided details from studies on the effects of

nano-particles, which until now have not been well studied. Recently

discoveries have revealed that there is a particulate effect caused by these

nano-particles in living tissues. There are now 16 peer-reviewed journals

devoted to the new field of nano-technology.

 

In a normal air sample there are billions of dust particles in a range of

sizes. For example there are 1 billion dust particles with a diameter of 0.1

micron per cubic meter. A diameter of 0.1 micron is about 100 times smaller

than a blood cell. An average man breathes about 28 cubic meters of air per

day, inhaling approximately 28 billion 0.1 micron particles.

 

This is also the peak population size of invisible atmospheric dust

particles, which are transported around the world and remain permanently

suspended until they are rained or snowed out of the atmosphere.

Nano-particles remain suspended by Brownian motion, and do not behave like

larger sized particles. They behave according to the rules of quantum

mechanics.

 

Some nano-particles have catalytic and extraordinary electronic

properties, like oxides of uranium, which behave in non-stoichiometric ways.

Uranium is a very large and complex atom, with a large cloud of many

electrons around the nucleus as well as in the outer shells. Uranium can act

as a reducer, donating electrons, or as an oxidizer, scavenging or accepting

electrons. Because uranium compounds are unpredictable in the way they behav

e, uranium is also biologically unpredictable. In this atmosphere of

unpredictability characteristic of uranium, anything can happen.

 

Because uranium and phosphate have an interaction, uranium can interfere

with biological processes where the phosphate structure is present. Examples

are in the DNA, the histone or Master Code (2) which controls part of the

_expression of the DNA, and fragments of the RNA which control part of the

_expression of the DNA.

 

TRANSPORT AND EXPOSURE PATHWAYS

 

Exposure pathways for depleted uranium can be through the skin, by

inhalation, and ingestion. Nano-particles have high mobility and can easily

enter the body. Inhalation of nano-particles of depleted uranium is the most

hazardous exposure, because the particles pass through the lung-blood

barrier directly into the blood. In the blood they are transported

throughout the body and may be filtered out by the tissues. Delivery to the

cell systems is expedited by transport in the liposomes, and probably in

cholesterol.

 

Because the depleted uranium particles are much smaller than the liposomes

or cholesterol, their presence is masked or hidden from the cell defenses,

and therefore can end up any place in the cell and tissues. Mild electric

shocks can also transport things into cells, as was demonstrated in early

lab experiments to modify genes, and the reported mixing of bacterial DNA

from lightning strikes (3).

 

When inhaled through the nose, nano-particles can cross the olfactory bulb

directly into the brain through the blood brain barrier, where they migrate

all through the brain (4). Many Gulf-era soldiers exposed to depleted

uranium have been diagnosed with brain tumors, brain damage, and impaired

thought processes. Uranium can interfere with the mitochondria, which

provide energy for the nerve processes, and transmittal of the nerve signal

across synapses in the brain.

 

Damage to the mitochondria, which provide all energy to the cells and

nerves, can cause chronic fatigue syndrome, Lou Gehrig's disease, Parkinson'

s Disease, and Hodgkin's disease (5).

 

SIZE DETERMINES TOXICITY MORE THAN COMPOSITION

 

A limited number of animal studies have shown that inhaled nano-particles

are more toxic than micro-sized particles of the same basic chemical

composition (4). Top UK toxicopathologist Vyvyan Howard has reported that

nano-particle toxicity is more related to their size than to the material

they are made from (6). A good example is gold which is usually inert, but

highly reactive at the nano-scale. Dr. Howard has claimed that

nano-particles can move across the placental barrier from mother to fetus.

 

In a study on fish exposed to nano-particles reported by Jim Thomas in The

Ecologist, " buckyballs " caused brain damage and genetic changes in fish (7).

Prof. Guenter Oberdoester at the Univ. of Rochester Dept. of Environmental

Medicine, reported that Teflon particles that were 0.13 microns in diameter

(the size of a virus) caused no ill effects in mice. But when mice were

exposed to nano-particles 0.02 microns in diameter for just 15 minutes,

nearly all the mice were dead within 4 hours.

 

The exposure to nano-particles below a threshold size killed the mice, but

there is no " dictionary disease " to explain the deaths, however the exposure

had the effect of a disease.

 

Particles in the nano-particle range are a " new breed of cat " . They can

get into vital process centers of the cell which larger diameter particles

cannot reach. The processes are not fully understood.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

Leuren Moret and Marion Fulk

Berkeley & Livermore, California

 

REFERENCES:

 

1. " Characteristics of Particles and Particle Dispersoids " , HANDBOOK OF

CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 53rd Edition (1961).

http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/Particle-Dispersoids-TableSep61.htm

 

2. " Preferential Staining of Nucleic Acid-Containing Structures For

Electron Microscopy " H. E. HUXLEY, Ph.D., and G. ZUBAY, Ph.D., Biophysical

and Biochemical Cytology 11 (2): 273. (Nov 1961)

http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/Huxley-Zubay-Staining1nov61.htm

 

3. " Isolation of Lightning-Competent Soil Bacteria " Hélène Cérémonie,

François Buret, Pascal Simonet, and Timothy M. Vogel, Applied and

Environmental Microbiology Journal (2004) V. 70 (10) p. 6342-6346.

 

http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/70/10/6342?maxtoshow= & HITS=10 & hits=10 & RE\

SULTFORMAT= & searchid=1103085771679_2000 & stored_search= & FIRSTINDEX=0 & firstpage=63\

42 & fdate=1/1/2004 & journalcode=aem

 

4. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEETING: " Nanomaterials Show Signs of

Toxicity " by Robert F. Service, Science 11 April 2003; 300: 243

US Congress. 2003. House of Representatives. Committee on Science Hearing:

The Societal Implications of Nanotechnology. April 9, 2003, 2318 Rayburn

House Office Building.

 

5. " Sandia nanolaser may help extend life-spans by rapidly analyzing

possible neuroprotectant drugs " by Neal Singer, Sept. 19, 2003, p.1.

http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN09-19-03/key09-19-03_stories.html#nano

 

6. " Dangers come in small particles " Hazards Magazine August 2004.

http://www.hazards.org/nanotech/safety.htm

 

7. " Ten Toxic Warnings " by Jim Thomas, The Ecologist January 2004 p. 13.

 

 

 

 

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THE USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS IS ILLEGAL *PIC*

 

Posted By: ChristopherBollyn <Send E-Mail>

Friday, 31 December 2004, 1:54 p.m.

 

In Response HOW DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS ARE KILLING OUR TROOPS *PIC*

(ChristopherBollyn)

 

WHY IS DU WEAPONRY ALREADY ILLEGAL?

 

The depleted uranium (DU) weaponry that the United States is using in Iraq

and Afghanistan, and has used in the former Yugoslavia, is clearly illegal.

 

This is an essential point that the public, and victims of DU poisoning,

including U.S. veterans, need to understand and stress in their arguments

against DU weapons.

 

DU weapons fail the 4 point legal test, as international lawyer Karen

Parker describes below:

 

A weapon is made illegal two ways: (1) by adoption of a specific treaty

banning it; and (2) because it may not be used without violating the

existing law and customs of war. A weapon made illegal only because there is

a specific treaty banning it is only illegal for countries that ratify such

a treaty. A weapon that is illegal by operation of existing law is illegal

for all countries. This is true even if there is also a treaty on this

weapon and a country has not ratified that treaty.

 

The laws and customs of war (humanitarian law) includes all treaties

governing military operations, weapons and protection of victims of war as

well as all customary international law on these subjects. In other words,

in evaluating whether a particular weapon is legal or illegal when there is

not a specific treaty, the whole of humanitarian law must be consulted.

 

There are four rules derived from the whole of humanitarian law regarding

weapons:

 

(1) Weapons may only be used in the legal field of battle, defined as

legal military targets of the enemy in the war. Weapons may not have an

adverse effect off the legal field of battle. (The " territorial " test).

 

(2) Weapons can only be used for the duration of an armed conflict. A

weapon that is used or continues to act after the war is over violates this

criterion. (The " temporal " test).

 

(3) Weapons may not be unduly inhumane. (The " humaneness " test).

 

(4) Weapons may not have an unduly negative effect on the natural

environment. (The " environmental " test).

 

DU weaponry fails all four tests:

 

(1) It cannot be " contained " to legal fields of battle and thus fails the

territorial test.

 

(2) It continues to act after hostilities are over and thus fails the

temporal test.

 

(3) It is inhumane and thus fails the humaneness test. DU is inhumane

because of how it can kill -- by cancer, kidney disease, etc. long after the

hostilities are over. DU is inhumane because it causes birth (genetic)

defects thus effecting children (who may never be a military target) and who

are born after the war is over. The use of DU weapons may be characterized

as genocidal by burdening gene pools of future generations.

 

(4) DU cannot be used without unduly damaging the natural environment and

thus fails the environment test.

 

Source: http://www.webcom.com/hrin/parker/du2000.html

 

Photo: The horrific effects of depleted uranium are well known but remain

a suppressed subject in the U.S. controlled press.

 

 

 

 

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