Don't buy into it. Matter is never created or destroyed.

http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du.htm

http://members.shaw.ca/rolfwitzsche/canada..._pollution.html
(look at the links in the middle of the page.)

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12.shtml

We need to move on this.

I'm not sure what you're getting at, but DU isn't used in nuclear weapons becuase it can't sutane a reaction

I'm not sure why you are mentioning nuclear weapons but anyway, DU is used to tip armour piercing rounds because it is such a heavy metal, it cuts thru armour like butter. However, it is linked with birth defects and cancer and this has been known since before the previous Persian conflict, knowing this the powers that be have decided to vastly increase the amount of Depleted Uranium rounds being used to the tune of about ten times as many. Iraqi's will be counting the cost of this war with their own deformed children and increased cancer rates for decades to come.

"The Depleted Uranium Time Bomb
Part 2:
Linking H5N1"

H5N1 is linked to illegal feeding practices in China, I believe.

Thats why its called depleted uranium. Its potential for energy has been used.

If DU particles are inhaled, alpha radiation causes cell damage, lymph cancers and lung cancer. Beta radiation attacks the eyes and skin. Chemically, DU acting as a heavy metal affects bone and kidneys. DU has a half life of 4 ½ billion years.
The alpha radiation can be stopped by a piece of paper, but if inhaled is small enough to bypass filters and leech into the body.

When a DU munition is fired it burns through a target (or a missed target) and self-sharpens as it moves, leaving a trail of contaminated dust, like smoke, in its wake.
About 340 tons of DU munitions were fired during Iraq War 1(Greenpeace says bull****, more like 800 tons). In the Balkans, notably Kosovo, approximately 11 tons of DU were delivered. The Christian Science Monitor reports estimates of 75 tons (official U.S. military figure) to 1,000 tons of DU munitions used in Iraq War 2 so far. Most of the bullets and shells lodge in the soil.
Even M16 ammo is now DU.