Strong medical links have been established between DU weapons and some aspects of Gulf War Syndrome. The British Atomic Energy Authority concluded in 1991, based on an estimate of 25 tons of DU weapons fired, that 500,000 deaths could result in the long term. No safe containment system has been developed. Existing on-site storage systems are filling up. A race is on to meet that deadline and move the waste off-site, despite the obvious dangers.
Used rods are a million times more radioactive than unused ones.
Existing highways and rail routes were designed to link major population centers for commerce and travel. Between 1997 and 2009, a dozen more nuclear space missions are planned. For more information, see the article in the HGW Newsletter. Before atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, Dineh uranium miners were already contaminated. Reservation homes and schools were built with nuclear waste.