[Tis The Time''s Plague]

So if you're not eating the stuff, you're in pretty good shape.

I heard from a friend that he was told in the Army's gunners school (armoured) that the rule was "DON'T LICK THE DU SHELLS"

Good rule.

[jwalsh07]

Good rule.

LOL. Yeah that one ranks right up there with not putting the grenade in your pocket after you pull the pin.

[misanthrope]

No comment on the validity of the article.

Uranium is EXTREMELY toxic if ingested in any manner. It's like super lead on steroids. No surprise that folks in the vicinty of it's use as projectiles (high velocity projectiles, DU has a habit of "pyrophoria", meaning that it "burns" upon high velocity impact with a hard target, producing a uranium aerosol) suffer higher rates of cancer and other diseases.