Is what they are trying to say that the metal is not radioactive until it oxidises ? If this is so, It does not agree with what I was taught about radioactive material. If not then why do the people that load the planes and tanks not getting ill ? Radiation will penitrate the skin and bones regardless of the state it is in.
I don't think the dust has to be in the lungs to cause illness if it is radioactive, but I am not sure what the people who put out the article are trying to put foward.

I am sure that Gulf War illness is real, I just am not sure about what these people are saying is not a half truth. If something is radioactive, it is radioactive regardless if it is in powder form or solid metal form.

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