Re: Kosovo - DU ammunition

["Overwatch Consulting" <donr@iprimus.ca>]

Franz: if you get the article you requested, please forward it to me. I need
this kind of data for a pamphlet I'm writing for the Canadian military, who
are presently in Kosovo using our Exploranium GR-130 units to look for "DU
in the dirt"!

Thanks,

Don Rickard, MRT (N)
Senior Consultant
Overwatch Consulting


-----Original Message-----
From: Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: April 26, 2000 3:34 PM
Subject: Kosovo - DU ammunition


>RADSAFErs,
>
>I wonder whether anyone knows an article about the use and (not existing)
>health effects of DU ammunition used in the Kosovo war. It should be not
>too long (two to three pages) and summarize the knowledge from a scientific
>point of view. Best would be some statement from a neutral body like the
>IAEA (but I could not find something from the IAEA yet). Furthermore is
>should be easily retrievable, best in electronic form.
>
>We want to have a contribution on that topic in the Journal of the Austrian
>Radiation Protection Society, because of wide-spread interest. The source
>will be cited if so wanted.
>
>Thank you!
>
>Franz
>
>
>Franz Schoenhofer
>Habicherg. 31/7
>A-1160 Vienna
>Austria
>Tel.: +43-1-495 53 08
>Fax.: same number
>mobile phone: +43-664-338 0 333
>e-mail: schoenho@via.at
>
>
>Office:
>Hofrat Dr. Franz Schoenhofer
>Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
>Radiation Protection Department (BMLUW I/8 U)
>Radetzkystr. 2
>A-1031 Vienna
>AUSTRIA
>
>phone: -43-1-71172-4458
>fax: -43-1-7122331
>
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