The Human Cost of Depleted Uranium
Aberdeen Proving Ground: near Baltimore, Maryland exposed
neighboring counties in the states of Maryland and Delaware to
exploding DU tests, and these neighbors have some of the highest
cancer rates in the nation: Maryland 3rd to 5th in the US, and
Delaware, directly downwind, highest in the US, p 69.
Air movement: in Schenectady, NY Leonard Dietz, a nuclear scientist
at General Electric/ U.S. Navy/ Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory,
using a mass spectrometer, accidentally discovered radioactivity
downwind from a manufacturing facility. The particles drifted at
least 26 miles away (as far as he tested), p 56.
Big lie technique: by the President of the University of New Mexico,
p 60; by the British government, p91; by the US and Kuwaiti
governments, p126; by the US Nuclear Safety Bureau, p140
Breast cancer: a gynecologist in Basra, Iraq reports four female
colleagues in her clinic developed breast cancer in their 30's, (and
she also notes increased ovarian and uterine cancer in her
patients), p111
Canadian troops: over 2000 of 4500 troops who were in the 1991 Gulf
War have serious health problems, p 125
Cancer rates: almost doubled in Concord, Massachusetts near a DU
factory, p48; elevated rates noted among nuclear weapon workers at
Hanford, Washington, p48; elevated rates in Delaware and Maryland,
p69; almost doubled in Lassen County California, p 73; twelve times
increased cancer deaths in Basra, Iraq, p105; increased childhood
cancer, two to five times the prior rate, in Baghdad, p 117
Clean-up: delayed seven years in Concord, Massachusetts, p 45
Congenital defects: increased in Basra, Iraq three to four times, p
108
Discrimination: a clearly racist remark directed at an educated
person asking fair questions, p 61; tests done next to a Hispanic
and Native American community, p 60
Epidemiologists' reports pp 48-9, 69, 73 (these are experts who
study the frequency of medical conditions statistically)
Fallout: in a mountain bowl near a test range, Susanville,
California, p 72
Gulf War Syndrome: two laws passed Oct 1998 but without sufficient
funding, p 35; other factors suggested, p 17, 94
Heavy metal toxicity of uranium: essentially like lead and cadmium
(serious), p 127
Humanitarian law (UN Commission on Human Rights) is being violated
severely, in four ways: U238 spreads widely beyond the battlefield,
persists for generations, causes inhumane diseases in non-
combatants, especially children, and causes long lasting damage to
the environment, p 128-129
Latent period of cancer: has to be considered in any statistics; it
is usually over ten years, p 125
Legal rights outlined by Karen Parker, San Francisco attorney: see
humanitarian law (above) p 128-129
Leukemia: in children in Iraq increased 3-4 times, p 117
Lung cancer: downwind from a factory in Massachusetts, 4 people in
their 20's and 30's on the same street, p 49
Medical records disappeared (lost by computers) concerning nearly
all of the 50 veterans testifying to Congress, p 35
Nuclear Regulatory Commission: advised precautions with masks and
badges, but troops were not warned, p 127
Okinawa firing range: citizens' complaints ignored, p 138-141
Particle size: impact and incendiarization produce myriad particles
1 micron (1/1000 mm diameter) which cannot be prevented from
entering the lungs, and from which they are easily absorbed to the
blood stream and distant organs, p 21, 33
Pentagon: ignored warnings in 1974 and 1990, p15; suppressed
(classified) a training video which had been prepared to warn troops
of hazards, and abolished the position of the director, Major
Douglas Rokke; he is a health physicist, p 32-33
Semen of exposed troops: showed increased alkalinity due to ammonia
and amines, tested by professor of medicinal chemistry in UK, p 94-95
Soil contamination: occupational health director in Serbia found
levels in soil close to buried DU penetrators similar to levels at
Chernobyl, and is concerned about crops and livestock consumed, p137
States rights: New York State closed NL Industry's DU factory in a
suburb of Albany NY in February 1980 because it had exceeded
permissible emissions by 10 times. It had exceeded 387 gm release
per month, (an allowable amount less than a pound per month.) p 55-
57
In 1991 the US and UK used 320 tons (64,000 pounds) of DU in shells
and bombs on Iraq. p 10
Tanks and trucks, destroyed and radioactive: Troops have examined
them and children have played on them, without advance knowledge of
the radiation hazards, p 16, 22, 135
Water contamination: at Concord Mass the Starmet Corp exceeded
Massachusetts standards regarding DU contamination of groundwater by
3100 times, p 44-45
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