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Subject: [Know_Nukes] DU symposium in NYC 6/14
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:01:27 -0400
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Thanks for passing this on:
Here is a rare and important opportunity in a public forum to get
unvarnished facts on the depleted uranium issue from leading scientists and
other experts, and to make citizen concern about it heard in a public forum,
June 14 in NYC. Please see www.nuclearpolicy.org for more info and on-line
registration.
CONFERENCE INVITATION
Source: Nuclear Policy Research Institute
1925 K Street NW, Suite 210, Washington, DC 20006 ph / 202-822-9800 fax/
202-822-9272
Contact: Christine Haenn 202/822-9800; Christine@nuclearpolicy.org
June 14 New York Symposium On Depleted Uranium Controversy
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Nuclear Policy Research Institute (NPRI) will
sponsor a public symposium on June 14, 2003 at the New York Academy of
Medicine on the Health Effects of Depleted Uranium Munitions. The New
York Academy of Medicine is located on Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street in
Manhattan. The symposium takes place from 8:45am through 5:15pm. For
complete information and on-line registration, go to www.nuclearpolicy.org.
The event will focus on the potential medical effects of depleted uranium
and the legal ramifications for its use, especially with regard to the
controversy over clean up of munitions and tanks scattered across Iraq in
the wake of the recent war, in which vastly more DU in more populated areas
was used than in the 1991 Gulf War.
The symposium gathers from around the world experts on all sides of the
issue, including those who have been quoted in recent media coverage of the
depleted uranium controversy and/or have done important scientific
reserarch in this area. Leading scientists and experts will help refocus
the DU debate on scientific and factual points, and present their findings
in an accessible way . Policy recommendations will be presented and
questions will be taken from the audience. Scheduled speakers include:
Helen Caldicott, MD -- President, NPRI; internationally known expert/author
on nuclear weapons, Nobel Peace Prize nominee
Steve Fetter, Ph.D. -- Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Robert Alvarez -- Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies; Senior
Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy from 1993 to 1999
Dan Fahey -- internationally known expert on depleted uranium
Jan Olaf Snihs --Scientific Team Leader, Post Conflict Assessment Unit,
United Nations Environmental Program.
Dr. Avril McDonald -- Researcher, TMC Asser Institute for International Law,
The Hague
Hari Sharma, Ph. D. -- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Donald Louria, M.D. -- Chairman Emeritus, Department of Preventive Medicine
& Community Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Medical School
Randall Parrish -- Research Professor of Isotope Geology, University of
Leicester; Head, Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, UK Natural Environment
Research Council
Thomas B. Cochran, Ph.D. -- Director, Nuclear Program, Natural Resources
Defense Council (NRDC)
George Woodwell, Ph.D. -- Founder, Woods Hole Research Center
David J. Brenner, Ph.D., D.Sc. -- Professor of Radiation Oncology and Public
Health and Director of Radiological Research Accelerator Facility, College
of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
Thomas M. Fasy, MD, Ph.D. -- Associate Professor of Pathology, Mount Sinai
School of Medicine
Concerned citizens, scientists and journalists are encouraged to attend.
For further media information, please call or email Christine Haenn
202/822-9800, Christine@nuclearpolicy.org. Public information also available
at www.nuclearpolicy.org
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