Leuren Moret is not a “nuclear scientist” - Leuren Moret has a BS in geology and worked at a nuclear laboratory as a Senior Scientific Technologist for a 10 month period in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing. Given the fact that real nuclear scientists have PhDs and years of applied research in nuclear physics, etc., Moret is hardly a scientist, let alone a nuclear scientist.

Moret also has claimed in videos that DU has caused a worldwide epidemic of diabetes. She has also claimed that atomic testing has caused a rise in autisum and nationwide drop in SAT test scores. It’s all on youtube or Google video. Moret is a very prolific self-promoter and she really enjoys jetting around the world pretending to be a “nuclear scientist” -

Far as the rest of her claim, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were wartime atomic bomb attacks on large Japanese cities that were instantly destroyed by blast, shock and irradiated by the neutron flux of the atomic explosion. DU is a relatively benign naturally occuring substance (uranium is present in every soil and rock in the world and in all human beings - more uranium comes out of the smoke stacks of the 4 Corners Coal Burning Power Plants than the total amount of DU used in all wars to date. Here is the link on coal burning plants.

Uranium Emitted from Coal Fired Power
Plants

http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html

Even U-235 is emitted from coal fired plants

An American nuclear scientist projected that the number of deaths caused by depleted uranium in ammunition fired on Iraq would exceed those caused by the bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. “The environment is now completely radioactive,” said Leuren Moret. “The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed

The only thing that is radioactive is Leuren Moret’s imagination and self-promotion. Not enough people were flocking to her anti-DU tirades, samples of which abound on the net that she had to follow fellow anti-DU crusader con artist Douglas Lind Rokke (Doctor Rokke - he does not tell you that his doctorate is in Vocational Education - his thesis being “Perceived physics concepts needed to teach secondary technology education as general education” now that really makes him an expert in DU. He also pretends to be a career Army man, but spent about 2 years active duty as an Army Reservist, 4 years in the Air Force as an enlisted avionics technician in the Vietnam War and the rest of the time in the Illinois Army National Guard (so he could be a perennial student) and Army Reserve. He also claims to be a disabled combat veteran but never saw combat and sat out the Gulf War far from the front in Riyadh. You can view his military records that I obtained under the FOIA in the files section of DUStory in Yahoo Groups - you can also read much of his thesis and learn much more about uranium and DU from an international scientific perspective.

Roger Helbig
rwhelbig at gee mail dot com
Concerned Vietnam Era Vet
Angy at Vets and their Families being flim flammed by the anti-DU con artists