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Russian Weightlifter Used DU to 'straighten nails'

Yet another reminder of DU hypocrisy surfaced at the beginning of February, this time in Russia. Customs officials stopped an amateur weightlifter in the Federal Volga District as he attempted to pass through customs with nearly 40kg of DU in his
car.

The man, who claimed that he had ‘found the container in a dump’, had been using the heavy radioactive metal for exercise and ‘occasionally straightening nails’. Unsurprisingly several news agencies, including Reuters were screaming dirty bomb and the hapless weightlifter has now found himself charged with attempted contraband of a radioactive substance.

Just in case any of you are still confused, yes, the authorities think it is OK to dump tonnes of the stuff over‘enemy’ states, just as long as you don't try and bring it home. At the time of going to press there was no indication of how the DU had ended up in the dump in the first place.

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From CADU News 10: Spring 2002

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