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Accounts of
Depleted Uranium reported by various media
outlets around the world.
8-2008
 | Aug 13:
The
Depleted Uranium Threat
Thomas D. Williams, for Truthout: "While attempting to act as the planet's
nuclear watchdogs, the United States and Great Britain have become two of
the world's largest, cancer-causing radiated dust and rusty depleted
uranium projectile polluters. Using tanks and planes, the US and British
military have fired hundreds of tons of radioactive depleted uranium
munitions (DU) while fighting the first Gulf War, the Balkans War, and the
more recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. For two decades, successive US
and British government leadership has done little overall to clean up the
hazardous war waste." |
4-2008
| Apr 10:
Depleted uranium burned at Hill Trace amounts of depleted uranium were
incinerated during the destruction of classified components at the burn
plant near Layton, military officials said Wednesday. |
3-2008
| Mar 14:
Lawsuit Seeks
to Block Uranium Mining at Grand Canyon
Environment News Service says: "One of the great natural wonders of the
world - the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River - is threatened by uranium
exploration. Three conservation groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday
challenging the approval of up to 39 new uranium drilling sites within a
few miles of Grand Canyon National Park." |
10-2007
| Oct 24:
Navajos Seek
Funds to Clear Uranium Contamination
Judy Pasternak of The Los Angeles Times reports: "Navajo tribal officials
asked Congress on Tuesday for at least $500 million to finish cleaning up
lingering contamination on the Navajo reservation in the American
Southwest from Cold War-era uranium mining, an industry nurtured by its
only customer until 1971: the United States government." |
8-2007
| Aug 27:
Cancer in Iraq
Vets Points to Toxic Exposure
The Arizona Daily Star is reporting there are many soldiers returning from
Iraq with cancer. Carla McClain writes: "The prime suspect in all this, in
the minds of many victims - and some scientists - is what's known as
depleted uranium - the radioactive chemical prized by the military for its
ability to penetrate armored vehicles. When munitions explode, the
substance hits the air as fine dust, easily inhaled." |
| Aug 22:
Tennessee
Nuclear Fuel Problems Kept Secret
Duncan Mansfield reports for The Associated Press, "A three-year veil of
secrecy in the name of national security was used to keep the public in
the dark about the handling of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear fuel
processing plant - including a leak that could have caused a deadly,
uncontrolled nuclear reaction." |
7-2007
| July 23:
Crazy for Yellowcake By
Petra Bartosiewicz
Colorado uranium prospectors fuel the world's hottest new old energy
trend: nuclear power. |
6-2007
| June 14:
Setback for Ill
Workers at Nuclear Bomb Plant
A federal advisory panel recommended Tuesday that thousands of former
workers at a nuclear weapons plant be denied immediate government
compensation for illnesses they say resulted from years of radiation
exposure there. |
| June 14:
The Case Against
Agent Orange and All Mutagenic Weapons
Willem Malten writes: "Agent Orange is an illustration of the horror of
chemical warfare. Used as a chemical weapon, it inflicts damage
genetically, through generations. The unborn and innocent are targeted.
Most of those affected by Agent Orange were born long after the Vietnam
War ended." Petronella Ytsma's photographs document descendants of
Vietnamese exposed to Agent Orange. |
5-2007
| May 28:
Greens seek to protect troops at Shoalwater Greens candidate for Herbert
Ms Jenny Stirling is asking the Australian and USA governments to give the
public assurances that Depleted Uranium will not be used in it's up coming war
games, Talisman Sabre. |
| May 20:
Depleted Uranium in Hawaii Target practice with radioactive rounds We know
that millions of pounds of depleted uranium rounds have been used by the US
military in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan with catastrophic results on both
civilians and military personnel.
Now it appears the US is using depleted uranium rounds within its own borders
for target practice. |
| May 15:
Depleted Uranium Weapons can Cause Lung Cancer In the first study
undertaken to find out DU's effects on human lung cells, toxicologist John
Wise and colleagues at the University of Southern Maine in Portland exposed
cultures of human bronchial fibroblasts to elements of uranium oxide typically
found in DU dust, reports New Scientist.
The exposure changed the chromosomes in the cells, which died due to genotoxic
effects that amplified with the particle concentration. The team therefore
concluded that DU increases risk of lung cancer. |
| May 14:
Doubts remain about depleted uranium The Army says its Stryker armored
vehicles have never fired depleted uranium rounds in Hawai'i, and there is no
intent for them to ever do so. |
| May 10:
Study Suggests
Cancer Risk From Depleted Uranium
Depleted uranium (DU), which is used in armor-piercing ammunition, causes
widespread damage to DNA that could lead to lung cancer, according to a study
of the metal's effects on human lung cells. The study adds to growing evidence
that DU causes health problems on battlefields long after hostilities have
ceased.
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4-2007
| April 20: Depleted
Uranium: Poisoning Our Planet
On April 14, an event was held at Portland State University that was titled,
"Our Poison Planet." One of the main focuses of the event was the effects of
depleted uranium. Truthout's Geoffrey Millard and Lance Page were there and
filed this story. |
2-2007
| Feb 22:
Divine Strake
Canceled
The Pentagon on Thursday canceled plans to detonate a 700-ton explosive charge
in the Nevada desert that had drawn environmental protests and lawsuits. |
| Feb 19:
Depleted Uranium:
Pernicious Killer Keeps on Killing
Craig Etchison, Ph.D., writes: "How to explain the exploding rates of cancer,
birth defects, and radiation poisoning among Iraqis in the Basra region? How
to explain a Department of Veterans Affairs study of 21,000 veterans of the
Gulf War that found rates of birth defects were twice as great for male vets
and three times as great for female vets who served in the Gulf War compared
to vets who did not? How to explain a Washington Post report in January of
2006 that 518,000 of the 580,000 Gulf War veterans were on disability, and
over half on permanent disability. How to explain over 13,000 dead Gulf War
veterans when only 250 were killed and 7,000 injured in the war itself?" |
| Feb 2:
Public Pushes Back
Against Planned Test on Old Nuke Site
Suspicious of government assurances that a planned desert explosion will not
rekindle the radioactive fallout that caused illness and death in past
testing, Westerners, Native Americans, "downwinders" and others want the plan
halted. |
1-2007
| Jan 30:
Utah Residents Rail
Against Divine Strake Test
Southern Utah residents welcomed the opportunity Thursday to speak their piece
about the proposed Divine Strake explosion test. Person after person stepped
to the microphone during the first of Governor Jon M. Huntsman's two Divine
Strake public hearings - expressing outrage, grief and frustration. Many blame
atomic testing in the 1950s at the nearby Nevada Test Site for a grim litany
of illnesses and deaths. Residents fear the non-nuclear Divine Strake blast,
also taking place at the Nevada Test Site, will send a mushroom cloud of
radiation-tainted litter into Utah. |
| Jan 11:
Opponents of Nevada
Bomb Test Fault Impact Studies
Officials from the Department of Defense say they hope to detonate a bomb - a
$23 million experiment known as Divine Strake - sometime in the first half of
this year. Groups opposed to the test due to health hazards were successful in
filing a lawsuit that postponed the experiment indefinitely, but the
Department of Defense is attempting to follow through with its plans. |
| Jan 3: Olmos
Criticizes US Navy for Polluting Puerto Rico
On Tuesday, Edward James Olmos criticized the United States and Puerto Rico
for not moving faster to clean up the site of a former bombing range on
Vieques Island. |
12-2006
11-2006
| Nov 22:
Uranium Mining
Firms Again Eyeing Navajo Land: Part IV
Part IV of the series: When mining companies started calling tribal offices
last year, Navajo president Joe Shirley Jr. issued an edict to employees:
Don't answer any questions. Report all contacts to the Navajo attorney
general. Decades after the Cold War uranium boom ended, leaving a trail of
poisonous waste across the Navajo Nation, the mining industry is back, seeking
to tap the region's vast uranium deposits once again. |
| Nov 21:
Navajos' Desert
Cleanup No More Than a Mirage: Part III
The human cost of the federal government's failure to follow through on its
plan to decontaminate Navajo land in New Mexico. |
| Nov 20:
A Peril That Dwelt
Among the Navajos: Parts I and II
These are the first two of a four-part special investigation being reported by
the Los Angeles Times. Parts three and four will follow on Tuesday and
Wednesday. Part I: Families spent years in radioactive homes, unaware of the
danger. Part II: Navajos quenched their thirst at watering holes that turned
out to be toxic. |
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Is Depleted Uranium the suspect behind Military Suicides? The use of depleted uranium (D.U.)—more
properly nuclear waste—and other substances in Iraq and Afghanistan cannot be
ruled out as a cause of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reported by
U.S., Coalition, and NATO veterans. Veterans who have served in Anglo-American
occupied Iraq and NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan are coming back in sizeable
numbers with medical, stress, and psychological problems, but there are
undoubtedly more factors involved than just the theatre of military service or
the war zone. |
| Nov 15:
Depleted Uranium, Another Gift From The Imperialists Depleted uranium (DU)
is cheap toxic waste from nuclear power plants and bomb production. However,
uranium is one of earth's heaviest elements and DU easily smashes through
tanks, buildings and bunkers spontaneously catching fire and burning people
alive. |
| Nov 14:
Israel
Detonated a Radioactive Bunker Buster Bomb in Lebanon The special report
was triggered by the radioactivity measurements reported on a crater probably
created by an Israeli Bunker Buster bomb in the village of Khiam, in southern
Lebanon. |
| Nov 13:
Russian Court Fines South Korean for Depleted Uranium Smuggling Jong Hon,
the president of All Nations Limited Company was arrested December 2004 for
using forged documents to bring equipment containing depleted uranium to
Sakhalin Island of Russia. |
|
DEPLETED URANIUM AND HIGH IRAQ CANCER? British and American troops in Iraq
today continue using depleted uranium weapons ignoring the deadly impact it
has on civilians’ lives and health. |
|
Russian Court Fines South Korean for Depleted Uranium Smuggling A regional
court in the Russian Far East has sentenced a South Korean national Kim Jong
Hon to pay 500.000 rubles (about $19.000) fine for illegally shipping
radioactive equipment from Libya in 2004, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported
on Monday |
| Nov 10:
Uranium Weapons Causing Cancer in Iraq British and
American troops in Iraq today continue using depleted uranium weapons in spite
of the warnings that it poses a potential long-term cancer risk to civilians. |
| Nov 6:
Bunker busters bombs containing depleted uranium warheads used The
delivery of at least 100 GBU 28 bunker busters bombs containing depleted
uranium warheads by the United States to Israel for use against targets in
Lebanon will result in additional radioactive and chemical toxic contamination
with consequent adverse health and environmental effects throughout the middle
east. Israeli tank gunners are also using depleted uranium tank rounds as
photographs verify. |
| Nov 5:
Depleted Uranium Radiation Threatens Canadian Troops In addition to their
flak jackets, rifles and helmets, Canada's troops in Afghanistan are carrying
another little known piece of protective equipment: radiation meters. It's a
reminder that amid the threat of suicide bombers and rocket-propelled
grenades, the soldiers face a more insidious, and invisible, concern on the
battlefield. |
|
Depleted Uranium Haunts Kosovo and Iraq Iraq and Kosovo may be thousands
of miles apart, but they share the dubious distinction of contamination with
radioactive residue from depleted uranium (DU) bullets used in American air
strikes. After several years of silence, US officials finally admitted that
340 tons of DU were fired during the Gulf war. In Kosovo, American delays in
providing details of quantities and target points have frustrated
international efforts to assess health risks. |
|
Depleted Uranium testing on lands of new metro Denver housing developments.
Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center's (RMPJC) Nuclear Nexus Project
needs your generous support to help us stop development of lands at the
southeast edge of Metro Denver which are contaminated by depleted uranium (DU)!
November 5, 2006. |
| Nov 1:
Depleted Uranium
Risk "Ignored"
UK and US forces have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite
warnings they pose a cancer risk ... and now senior scientists have pointed to
worrying health statistics in Iraq, which show a rise in cancer and birth
defects. |
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Scientist questions use of depleted uranium munitions America and
Britain's use of depleted uranium munitions has again been queried by a
scientist who says information about their dangers has been suppressed.
The man who worked on a definitive World Health Organisation study on the
dangers of the munitions, says studies pointing to a potential problem never
saw the light of day. |
10-2006
| Oct 24:
Israel used chemical weapons in Lebanon and Gaza Israel has admitted using
phosphorous bombs during the war against Lebanon last summer, just days after
being accused by an Italian television documentary programme of using dense
inert metal missiles, which are highly carcinogenic, against the Palestinians
in Gaza in July and August. |
| Oct 22:
Genocide in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine Due to depleted Uranium use,
cancer rates in Southern Iraq are at many folds the normal rate. 75 young US
Soldiers were killed in the past two weeks alone and thousands will suffer
from the effects of Depleted Uranium (both a teratogen and a carcinogen). |
| Oct 17: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will
hold an Open House on October 18, 2006 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Town of
Colonie Community Center at 1653 Central Avenue, Colonie, New York. The Open
House will be an opportunity for community members to hear and ask questions
about the final stages of cleanup at the
Colonie FUSRAP Site. Interested
members of the community are encouraged to attend. |
| Oct 14:
The Case Against
Depleted Uranium By DON MONKERUD On September 7, in the first court case
on Gulf War I to reach Federal Court, nine veterans from a National Guard unit
argued their case before a judge in New York, claiming the Army violated its
own safety protocols by exposing them to radioactive depleted uranium and
refusing to provide medical care. |
| Oct 6:
Textron device detects depleted uranium shipment According to the
California Highway Patrol, a large rig passing through a checkpoint at the
California-Nevada border triggered the radiological alarm on July 20. That
prompted action by Nevada County Health Services and the Truckee Fire
Protection District and its Hazardous Materials Unit, which inspected and
eventually cleared the vehicle. |
| Oct 3:
Candidate says Congress "punts" on depleted uranium Mike Mikes, Green
Party candidate in northern Wisconsin's Seventh congressional district notes
that depleted uranium munitions were first used during the first Gulf War, and
that 25% of the troops deployed in that conflict are now suffering from some
type of permanent disability. Miles says that, not only has Congress "punted"
on the issue of depleted uranium, they're also cutting funds for the Veterans
Administration. Miles says many Gulf War vets now refer to depleted uranium as
the "Agent Orange" of their generation.
|
9-2006
|
Sickened Iraq Vets Blame Depleted Uranium
There is something massively wrong with Herbert Reed, though no one is sure
what it is. He believes he knows the cause, but he cannot convince anyone
caring for him that the military's new favorite weapon has made him
terrifyingly sick. Reed believes depleted uranium has contaminated him and his
life. He now walks point in a vitriolic war over the Pentagon's arsenal of it
- thousands of shells and hundreds of tanks coated with the metal that is
radioactive, chemically toxic, and nearly twice as dense as lead. |
8-2005
7-2005
6-2005
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At least some 29 countries have DU
weapons. Some interesting international actions are at
www.BanDepletedUraniumWeapons.org.
Weapons such as DU, land mines, Agent Orange which affect civilians and the
environment long after the conflict are banned under the Geneva
Convention.(www.armedconflictlaw.org)
The US military is required, under its own regulatins (www.traprockpeace.org/r700_48.pdf
www.traprockpeace.org/tb_9-1300-278_1996.pdf www.traprockpeace.org/p700_48.pdf)
to treat those affected clean up the DU they have spread around Iraq, to the
best of their ability. No, it can't be totally "cleaned up", but much could be
done. In the Albany, NY, area, a toxic site where DU was used is being cleaned
up, contaminated soil has been removed and taken to radioactive waste burial
sites.
For some citizen actions in the US invoke a company's liability legally in
committing war crimes by producing weapons that they know cause this harm, see
this link: www.nukewatch.com/du/20041221losingstreak.html
A US campaign to require the military to label with a warning Radioactive
placard the DU weapons shipped on highways around the country is at
www.gzcenter.org. Regular people have called attention to this problem, and the
US Dept. of Transportation has been studying this issue very closely for over a
year, and calling on the military to prove its claims that it is safe.
The US secretary of the Veterans Administration resigned in the past month or
so, in response, many say, to a pivotal article on DU by Leuren Moret.
Below is a link to a 4/27 article on birth deformities documented from Gulf War
II.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/bad5cdd6e59942ed1a0bb28fa28163fa.htm
Might we all shine such a spotlight on the issue that such
environmental devastation becomes unthinkable? I know Greenpeace activists are
famous for their perseverance and creative actions.
Sheree
DU Weapons Network of the Hudson Mohawk Region
2-2005
| Feb 25:
Depleted uranium ammo may be replaced AFTER years of controversy about
the long-term health effects of depleted uranium weapons on soldiers and
people living in areas where they have been used, the Pentagon is
considering replacing the uranium with tungsten alloy. The snag is that
tungsten could be even more dangerous. |
11-2004
10-2004
9-2004
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6-2004
H.R.4463: To provide for identification of members of the Armed Forces
exposed during military service to depleted uranium, to provide for health
testing of such members, and for other purposes.
Sponsor:
Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] (introduced 5/20/2004) Cosponsors
(9)
Latest Major Action: 5/20/2004 Referred to House committee. Status:
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
5-2004
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