WISE Uranium Project is part of World Information Service on Energy. It covers the health and environmental impacts of nuclear fuel production. WISE is an information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear energy, radioactive waste, radiation, and related issues.

This massive information source deals with DU in the broader sense of it being the waste product of uranium enrichment for nuclear power. Although WISE is an anti-nuclear power activist group, it tends to line up against most of the DU activists, saying rather, that reports of DU dust dangers are greatly exaggerated. For this reason, NATO's introduction to DU offers a link to WISE-UP with an endorsement of their 'reliability.'

Here is a PDF file entitled, WISE Uranium Project - FAQ Depleted Uranium in Urine of Soldiers.

Public Health Statement for Uranium

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
CAS# 7440-61-1 September 1999

Highly Recommended!
An excellent detailed and easy-to-read account of the physics, chemistry and radiological properties of uranium and depleted uranium (U-238). It focuses on the general issue of uranium in the environment in its many forms and the possiblility of people receiving dangerous doses (which normally doesn't appear to happen very often). This report appears to be honest and gives an excellent background understanding that will help you understand this issue. Keep in mind that many DU activists admit uranium and DU are not especially dangerous substances in most situations, but become dangerous when used explosively on a battlefield.

This classic volume, originally published in 1983, is now available again in electronic form.

This book presents the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by the then recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition.

But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the worldwide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, had created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology could well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation.

Q & A on uranium enrichment

A basic Q and A on DU

http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/legal/du.html

Depleted Uranium: A Review of its Properties, Potential Danger and Recent Use in Yugoslavia
By Sonali Kolhatkar

This is a thoroughly researched essay on DU with lots of citation and rigorous explanation of statements made.