They perform similar magic when calculating the internal dose from a tiny uranium particle in uranium miner s lung or Gulf, SFOR, or KFOR soldier s lymph node, by relating the radioactivity to the whole organ or body mass. Actually only one cell might be affected. Adjacent cells within a radius of 6 to 7 cells copy the damage by biological code transfer. The microscopic but nasty DU particles tend to collect in lymph nodes which then show something like ten times the concentration of uranium that is found in the lungs if the contaminant is inhaled as insoluble dust. The higher concentration in the lymph system destroys the body s immune resistance and disease starts.
Conspiracy theories are alive and well.
Moderate Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova dismissed Europe's concerns about DU because he believed they were raised by people trying to chase KFOR out of Kosovo. This brief review would be incomplete without mentioning certain miraculous transformations.