HW 31: Responding to Riverbend

I would really like to know more about “Depleted Uranium”. When I first read this, I had no idea what it meant, I still don’t really understand. But Riverbend described as a term that all Iraqi’s knew of and it was something to deal with the cancer rate rising. I guess, Depleted Uranium Poisoning could cause children to be born with no face, one leg, or even just one eye. (Riverbend 47) According to Wikipedia, Depleted Uranium is is uranium remaining after removal of the isotope uranium-235. It is a waste product of the uranium enrichment process. That’s a nice technical definition that they gave us, and I basically got out of it that it is a very dangerous material that can cause dangerous affects on everyone, especially children. Wikipedia says that because it is weakly radioactive, the “natural uranium” has never been able to be proven and this has been known to cause cancer.