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In order to hide the risk of the local exposure to the individual cell, government scientists and the pro-nuclear lobby working on dose risk and dose response (protecting the nuclear weapons and nuclear power programs), simply averaged the local exposure over the whole body. Even though Uranium-238 may have a long half-life and external low level radiation, inhaling billions of particles of DU dust (in a single day on or off the battlefield10), which then distributes throughout the body, is a horrific local dose. One gram of depleted uranium releases more than 12,000 alpha particles per second. The radiation slowly kills the cells that make life possible and Gulf War Syndrome, a complex of diseases, slowly kills the soldier. The low level and ultra-low level risk of ionizing radiation exposure is especially pertinent to the DU issue2,9.

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