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Center for Research on Globalization
March 29, 2018
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 byÃÂ ...
Las Vegas Sun
March 29, 2018
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.
Myjoyonline.com
March 29, 2018
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 inÃÂ ...
The Epoch Times
March 29, 2018
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 inÃÂ ...
B92
March 28, 2018
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. RecommendÃÂ ...
The River Reporter
March 28, 2018
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-controlÃÂ ...
Popular Mechanics
March 28, 2018
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'sÃÂ ...
Independent Balkan News Agency
March 28, 2018
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 inÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
March 27, 2018
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 toÃÂ ...
B92
March 24, 2018
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 companiesÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 24, 2018
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 finalÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 23, 2018
(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 hasà...
The Wilson Times
March 18, 2018
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 generallyÃÂ ...
Next Big Future
March 18, 2018
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,ÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
March 18, 2018
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 journalistÃÂ ...
West Kentucky Star
March 18, 2018
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 improvingÃÂ ...
The Times
March 16, 2018
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, theÃÂ ...
The Canary
March 16, 2018
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.
Salt Lake Tribune
March 10, 2018
... 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.
CT News Junkie
March 9, 2018
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.
Center for Research on Globalization
March 6, 2018
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 skepticalÃÂ ...
Chemical Watch
February 22, 2018
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 EnvironmentalÃÂ ...
EUobserver
February 21, 2018
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 weaponsÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
February 21, 2018
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) andÃÂ ...
B92
February 20, 2018
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 ofÃÂ ...
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
... 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 uraniumÃÂ ...
Stuff.co.nz
December 31, 1999
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 phosphorusÃÂ ...
InvestorIntel
December 31, 1999
[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 formationÃÂ ...
Chemical Watch
February 22, 2018
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 EnvironmentalÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
February 22, 2018
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) andÃÂ ...
EUobserver
February 21, 2018
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 weaponsÃÂ ...
B92
February 20, 2018
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 ofÃÂ ...
London Review of Books (blog)
February 19, 2018
They were protected by depleted uranium armour – a dense metal virtually impenetrable by conventional tank shells, anti-tank rockets and RPGs – and carried anti-tank munitions tipped with depleted uranium penetrators, which can punch through steel armour as if it were cardboard. They then ignite aÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 17, 2018
Since the war's end, Iraqi civilians have continued to die as a result of a badly damaged civilian infrastructure, crippling economic sanctions and high cancer rates attributed to hazardous chemicals released during the war, including the Pentagon's use of radioactive depleted uranium shells. The UnitedÃÂ ...
Second Line of Defense
February 16, 2018
A modern tank firing a depleted uranium round essentially expends its kinetic energy (generated chemically) for transportation to the target, conversion to kinetic to defeat the protective armor of the target, and then utilities the small amount of energy remaining to damage the fragile internal components ofÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
February 9, 2018
We just want to reiterate: this gun is larger than a Volkswagen Beetle and fires bullets the size of beer bottles made out of depleted uranium. That's an argument few opponents are likely to win. A-10's Gatling Gun. US Air Force. A-10's Gatling Gun. The video appears to show two distinct strikes upon theÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
February 8, 2018
(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. 4 ÷ By Mickey Gallivan | The Public Forum. ÷ 2 hours ago. Utah Senate: Please vote “no” on HB169.
ANSA
February 8, 2018
(ANSA) - Milan, February 8 - Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said Thursday it was wrong to "criminalise" the armed forces after a parliamentary probe found depleted uranium had caused cancer in soldiers. She said that "munitions with depleted uranium were never used or acquired in Italy".
ANSA
February 7, 2018
(ANSA) - Rome, February 7 - The final report of a commission on depleted uranium said Italian soldiers had been exposed to "shocking" levels of it in Italy ... But the Italian doctor whose expert testimony was cited by the commission as evidence that depleted uranium caused cancer in soldiers denied "everÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
February 7, 2018
... a $1.72 million tax break. 15. Tribune Editorial: EnergySolutions doesn't need a $1.72 million tax break. (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.
ANSA
February 7, 2018
(ANSA) - Rome, February 7 - The final report of a commission on depleted uranium said Italian soldiers had been exposed to "shocking" levels of it in Italy ... But the Italian doctor whose expert testimony was cited by the commission as evidence that depleted uranium caused cancer in soldiers denied "everÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
February 6, 2018
(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 Lee Davidson. ÷ 3 days ago. While Gov. Gary Herbert repeatedly calls for axing the long list of taxà...
Sputnik International
January 24, 2018
If you've ever wondered what it's like to be on the “business end” of a US Special Operations air wing, wonder no more. US Special Operations Command's Twitter account has published video footage of what it's like to be shot at by the A-10 Warthog's armor-piercing depleted uranium cannon rounds.
We Are The Mighty (blog)
January 24, 2018
The 137th Special Operations Wing, which shot the footage, captured a rather unique perspective. The special operations wing put a camera on a training ground before the A-10 performed a strafing run on it. The A-10's GAU-8/A Avenger rotary canon fires 3,900 armor-piercing depleted uranium and highÃÂ ...
West Kentucky Star
January 23, 2018
According to a press release, PPPO will use the page to share timely information about its activities, plans, and progress at the Portsmouth and Paducah cleanup sites and the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride conversion plants located there. The page will also highlight the sites' workers and communityÃÂ ...
Next Big Future
January 19, 2018
The full power runs for the test reactors will be done this month and the next two months. Before the reactors are started the uranium in them would only cause a person to experience 0.5% of their average yearly exposure in the event of a launch accident. The reactors including shielding are the size of aÃÂ ...
Orlando Sentinel
January 18, 2018
These munitions included dangerous chemicals and substances like arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, white phosphorus, napalm, Agent Orange, and depleted uranium. The result of these explosions was that the toxic substances contained within these munitions were released to the island's environmentÃÂ ...
Deming Headlight
January 17, 2018
Most of us are subjected to many sources of radiation on a daily basis including: dental x-rays, TSA scans at airports, drift from compromised nuclear power plants, CT scans, cell phones, other wireless devices, computers, microwave towers and depleted uranium from armor piercing munitions that hasÃÂ ...
Electrek
January 15, 2018
They're depleted uranium. Bombs, not so much. Reactor-grade uranium isn't nearly as rich as weapon-grade uranium. jimmyghost • 1 day ago. low yeild lots of them. Broncobet • 1 day ago. There is plenty of coal and other fossil fuels burnt in the USA polluting the planet, that could be replaced by advancedÃÂ ...
Bloomington Pantagraph
January 8, 2018
These studies looked at information concerning potential health issues and the possible use of materials other than depleted uranium in munitions and armor. Both safety and effectiveness of these materials were studied. Overall, depleted uranium was found to be the best choice for the uses and safety.
