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Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural uranium. (Natural uranium is about 99.27% U-238, 0.72% U-235—the fissile isotope, and 0.0055% U-234). Uses of DU take advantage of its very high density of 19.1 g/cm3 (68.4% denser than lead). Civilian uses include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shielding in medical radiation therapy and industrial radiography equipment and containers used to transport radioactive materials. Military uses include defensive armor plating and armor-piercing projectiles.

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As in Iraq, many of the bombs and missiles raining on the people of Yugoslavia are coated with depleted uranium. The radioactive fallout will, as is happening today in Iraq, ensure an agonizing death for tens of thousands in the years ahead, long after the bombs stop falling. After years of pious bleating by ...
As a community, we have suffered — and continue to suffer — both chronic and acute injuries from the physical, environmental and psychic harms we have been exposed to: Agent Orange, Gulf War syndrome, burn pits, depleted uranium, post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injuries … and the list goes on.

Will Ghana risk exposure to the toxic waste material and depleted Uranium like in Puerto Rico and Iraq causing illnesses and sufferings to many in those countries? Similarly, Articles 15 makes our nationals helpless and at the mercy of the United States government when a US officer commits an offence in ...
The firearms are sold alongside opioids, heroin, cocaine, malware, stolen data, fraud tools, ransomware, pilfered credit cards, and even depleted uranium, radioactive Polonium-210, and deadly poisons like ricin. O'Reilly displayed a photo of an AR-15 magazine and ammunition shipped from a vendor in ...
No sweetie it was your Albos that won and keep on winning with the leftover depleted uranium LOL. (sj, 26 March 2018 13:12). # Comment link. Recommend (+14). Poor comment (-8). What's this? I gather, Serbia won again against NATO!!! (Tom L'Orizi, 26 March 2018 12:47). # Comment link. Recommend ...
All kinds of weapons would be allowed: muzzle-loaded rifles, semi-automatic assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-aircraft guns, cruise missiles and anti-tank guns with depleted uranium shells. Only ICBMs with nuclear explosives are forbidden as being in the domain of the gods. Some gun-control ...

The vehicle will have traditional passive steel, composite, and even depleted uranium armor, complemented with an active protection system to protect it from tank gun rounds, anti-tank missiles, and rocket propelled grenades. It will be at least as mobile as the M1 Abrams, be transportable by the Air Force's ...
The fact is that the BiH Presidency will accept the decision, there is no doubt, but the three member joint state institution will not accept the use of ammunition with depleted uranium on state territory. In addition, the US Embassy in BiH, in several cases, emphasized that this kind of ammo will not be used in ...
He also said that the US should set laws and rules to prevent the misuse of depleted uranium. The Saudi prince, who started a two-week visit to the US last week, added: “My visit to the US is to get technology and education techniques to the Kingdom.” Saudi Arabia says it needs nuclear energy to ...
Now has the US cleaned up the depleted uranium in Southern Kosovo? What have they done to reduce the very high numbers of Albanians dying from leukemia caused by the DU? Just how much has the US invested in Kosovo to alleviate the extremely high level of unemployment? What US companies ...
The professional presentation of General Slobodan Petković on the catastrophic consequences of the use of missiles filled with depleted uranium on human health and the environment has attracted great attention. He revealed that a massive use of the missiles with depleted uranium began in the final ...
(Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) David Squires, general manager at Clive Operations for EnergySolutions, stands next to an area ready to accept large quantities of depleted uranium on April 2, 2015. By Dan Harrie. By Lee Davidson. · Published: 1 day ago. Updated: 18 hours ago. Utah's governor has ...
Due to the United States' use of depleted uranium and other chemical weapons like white phosphorus, Iraqis will continue to suffer from birth defects and other related illnesses for generations. How did we get there? War propaganda was essential in paving the way for the Iraq war. Americans are generally ...
Unlike traditional nuclear reactors, this technology will be capable of utilizing fuel made from depleted uranium, which is currently a waste byproduct of the uranium enrichment process. Its unique design gradually converts the fuel through a nuclear reaction without removing it from the reactor's core, ...
Fifteen years ago this month, the United States spearheaded a fantastically bloody war on Iraq as part of its ongoing effort to ensure the Iraqi nation's perpetual misery. Straight-up carnage aside, there were some other more trivial yet still "spectacularly unsavoury" results of the invasion, as veteran journalist ...
After construction, inspection and DOE approval, rail service supporting environmental cleanup and depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion operations at ... The Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project was also able to resume shipping by rail, reducing potential risks and improving ...
President Putin will lose no sleep over the new US sanctions against Russian trolls accused of attempting to skew the American election. Those involved are neither close associates nor important economic allies, and are expendable – and replaceable. Indeed, the announcement of the new measures, the ...

The predominantly right-wing UK press is using the Russian spy poisoning story as yet another excuse to praise Theresa May's government and criticise Jeremy Corbyn. But according to Plaid Cymru, Russia continues to be the UK's largest export market for weapons-grade depleted uranium.
... Class B and C nuclear waste. In 2006 we successfully fought the storage of high-level nuclear waste on the Goshute reservation. In 2008 we fought EnergySolutions' attempts to import foreign nuclear waste. And in 2009 we successfully turned back their initial secret attempts to import depleted uranium.
Slossberg also chaired the GAE committee when it helped usher through landmark public campaign finance legislation. As chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee, she helped create a Depleted Uranium Task Force to study the effects that toxic substances had on soldiers who fought in the Middle East.
Due to the US use of depleted uranium and other chemical weapons like white phosphorus, Iraqis will continue to suffer from birth defects and other related illnesses for generations. How did we get there? War propaganda was essential in paving the way for the Iraq war. Americans are generally skeptical ...
Additionally, it will focus on drinking water and consider both natural and depleted uranium, but not enriched uranium. The agency's Office of Land and Emergency Management says it is interested in an assessment in relation to response or remedial actions under the Comprehensive Environmental ...
The rejected text said that white phosphorus and depleted uranium ammunitions should be explicitly ruled out from the fund – but in the end MEPs decided to refer only to a United Nations treaty, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). The final text merely stated that "incendiary weapons ...
The article under the headline, "Big NATO exercise in Banja Luka soon: Airplane squadrons, depleted uranium, and media preparation of Serbs in Republika Srpska," claims that an agreement had been reached at the defense department level, by the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFBiH) and ...
The website said that it insight into documents detailing an agreement between the Ministry of Defense and US forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina, according to which ammunition with depleted uranium would be fired from airplanes during the exercise at Manjaca Ranges near Banja Luka, in the Serb entity of ...
... tank upgrades — $880 million. Daniel Brown/Business Insider. The M1 Abrams has been the main battle tank of the US since the 1980s. It known as one of the best tanks ever made, and is in service in a number of variations with seven nations. Upgrades to the Saudi tanks may include depleted uranium ...
Much of Southern Iraq remains contaminated with the residue of the depleted uranium shells used by American armoured columns against the Russian-made tanks of the Iraqi army in the Gulf War of 1991. During the first and second battles for the Iraqi city of Fallujah, in 2004, the use of white phosphorus ...
[2] have summarized and discussed the current state of knowledge on chemical toxicity and radioactivity of depleted uranium and the effect of these properties on living systems and cell lines. This study draws attention to chromosomal aberrations, DNA damage and DNA breaks, and micronuclei formation ...


 

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