Reply #15: Amerecium

[VelvetMonkeyWrench]

I used it as a comparative thing.

Virtually all homes in the US come equipped with Amerecium in their smoke detectors.

Some sort of baseline needs to be established here, and its not happening from what I can see.

Questions need to be asked and honestly answered like: is this DU thing a worse problem than say Radon gas which the US public is in a frenzy over right now. Radon test kits are flying off the shelves at Home Despots and Blows.

If it is a problem, can it be "remediated" in populated areas by some fairly inexpensive techniques like lead paint (cover it with latex paint).

The stuff is heavy and should settle to the ground, so it shouldn't go wafting about the way lighter things would. Would a simple ground scrape of a a couple inches of soil be good enough in some area where a tank was hit?

I'm sure there got to be some reasonable ways to deal with it, its just that the rhetoric is of such volume these days that reasonableness is falling by the wayside.