The
quantitative analysis of depleted uranium isotopes in British,
Canadian, and U.S. Gulf War veterans. Horan P, Dietz L, Durakovic A. Department of
Earth Sciences,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.
The
purpose of this work was to determine the concentration and ratio
The urine samples
were evaporated
and separated into isotopic dilution
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Estimate
of the Time Zero Lung Burden of Depleted Uranium in Persian Gulf War
Veterans
Estimate of the Time Zero Lung Burden of Depleted Uranium
in Persian
Gulf
Publication: Military Medicine, Vol. 168, August 2003, pages 600-605. Abstract: The aim of this study was to
estimate the
amount of DU in the
An NOW for something completely different: JOURNAL OF BATTLEFIELD TECHNOLOGY, VOL 5, NO 3, NOVEMBER 2002 5 BALLISTIC PROPERTIES OF DEPLETED URANIUM AND BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES William S. Andrews, Edward A. Ough, Brent J. Lewis and Leslie G.I. Bennett Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7K 7B4. Abstract. Over the past quarter century, depleted uranium (DU)
has replaced
A sufficient reason
never to trust
the military:
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Below === line is a proof that some
"scholars"
engage in cover-ups of
adverse health effects of uranium weapons,
called DU (depleted uranium)
weapons, although it is a scientific fact
that other alloys of uranium are
also being used.
It is simply a lie that "Canadian testing
has
not been able to identify
elevated levels of DU or even natural
uranium
in urine, hair or bone samples
of veterans." Compare, for example, with
peer-reviewed
paper below ----
line, by researchers Durakovic, Horan,
Dietz,
and Zimmerman from the
independent Canadian Uranium Medical
Research
Centre. They found over 2000
times higher levels of depleted uranium in
urine of exposed Gulf War I
veterans than in unexposed veterans from the
same war.
"Researchers" Andrews, Ough, Lewis and
Bennettat
at the Royal Military
College of Canada and the journal that
published
their rubbish comply with
the infamous Dan Fahey's "standard" of
scientific
scrutiny and honesty. Only
ignorants still believe that the military
would be able to produce objective
information on a most incriminating topic.
Ough is the Head of the Gulf War I
veterans
radioisotopic analysis program
in Canada. Cynically, he and other people,
like Fahey in the US, pretend to
stand for the ill veterans' intersts but put
their loyalty to the military
first. Let's hope the ill veterans and
families
of the deceased will tell
Ough and Co. where to go.
Why testing by the US Department of
Defense
(DOD) and Canadian Department of
National Defense (DND) is unable to detect
any hazards -- see March 2003
article titled "12 years too late?"
www.umrc.net/12yearsNotTooLate.asp
by Tedd Weyman, Deputy Director, Uranium
Medical
Research Centre, which
states in conclusions:
"The constructing of follow-up and
screening
programs that persist at
refusing to conduct isotopic analyses on
veterans
whose medical symptoms and
deployment histories suggest a high
likelihood
of inhalational exposure to
DU is a distinct contradiction with other
government policies and a slap in
the face to veterans."
Weyman's is one of a few texts drawing
attention
to the extreme hazard of
nuclear waste recycled into uranium alloys
for manufacture of "conventional"
weapons. The most hazardous additive are
so-called
transuranics, which are
tens of thousands of times more radioactive
than pure Depleted Uranium (DU,
mostly Uranium 238, some U234 and 235) or
pure, Non-Depleted Uranium (Virgin
Uranium):
"The contents of recycled uranium are
exponentially
more radioactive than
pure, Virgin Uranium and pure Depleted
Uranium.
This mix of materials
contains “transuranic elements, fission
products,
spent fuel products and
nuclear activation products” of plutonium
239, 241, 242, uranium-236, and
neptunium (and a host of other elements...)
...Both independent and government
radiological
analyses of DU penetrators
collected from DU[21] battlefields have
detected
trace amounts of
transuranics, including plutonium-239 in the
metal. Independent studies have
detected traces of uranium-236 in veterans’
urine; adding a new dimension to
the inhalational exposure risks to veterans
from recycled uranium elements."
"The degree of increase of the internal
radiation
dose from transuranics has
not been examined beyond theoretical
calculations
[22] [23]. DOD and NATO
defense departments have been sponsoring
studies
to draw conclusions that it
is not present, and if it is, its not
relevant.
DOD’s failure to even
consider the possibility of transuranics
contamination
in the Follow-Up
program protocols suggests that there is
more
than DU to worry about."
Weyman exposes the insidiuous methods of
cover-ups
by official "studies"
under DOD and DND control:
"By their own admissions, DND’s and DOD’s
DU
screening and follow-up
programs have not been conducted by
laboratories
and researchers reliably
able to measure DU in veterans.
Instead,
multi-millions of research dollars
are diverted to gratuitous studies [24] of
laboratory animals to examine
irrelevant anatomical mechanisms and
questionable
biological pathways --
body hair, shrapnel, “nose-only inhalation”,
and “nose-brain barriers”.
The outcomes of these studies will be
meaningless
for the majority of Gulf
and Balkan veterans.
Inadequate and inconclusive radiological,
bio-assay
programs mean no proofs
(one way or another) of DU contamination for
deceased, ill and dying
veterans or the possible links to mutagenic
effects of this contamination on
their children. This means the largest
population of battlefield DU exposed
veterans will not be recognised – even if
they have, in fact, been
contaminated. Research into pathways
of tertiary medical interest will not
examine the causal relationship between DU
inhalational exposure and its
affects on health. Nor will it examine the
primary mechanisms of exposure
and environmental transport vectors
coinciding
with veterans’ deployment
histories or civilians present in the
Persian
Gulf and Balkan theatres."
Writing from collective expertise of
scientists
of the independent Uranium
Medical Research Centre, Weyman suggests the
right way of testing and
research:
"A responsible approach by DND and DOD
would
be to set-up technologically
competent screening programs for all
veterans
presenting with symptoms of
uranium internal contamination, coincident
with deployment histories in
known DU battlefields. Where DU and
possibly transuranics, are conclusively
detected in veterans’ urine, research can
begin relevant biological and
clinical studies of the target organs,
metabolic
pathways, radiation dose
models and systemic effects of uranium
internal
contamination via
inhalation. Contrary to DND’s and DOD’s
programs,
independent research and
even the military’s own, recent admissions
are proof that there is still
time and the available technology to measure
DU in veterans. Twelve years
in not too late for this to be done right."
Piotr Bein
counterstart:
August 22, 2002