Depleted uranium, UMRC etc

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Some of you may be interested in the following (check facts & fiction for 

instance):

http://www.umrc.net/



There was an article (in Swedish) in Aftonbladet yesterday (still today in 

North America):

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/kultur/story/0,2789,466225,00.html

(there are some names at the end of the article which some of you may 

recognize)



The article says that more than 200 000 veterans from the first gulf war 

exhibit the "gulf syndrome": Severe eczema, the skin becomes bubbly and then 

cracks and becomes hard and black as coal. The context furthermore says that 

the radiation levels were up to 300 times the normal (highest level near the 

airport of Bagdad where some particlarly bad battle was held).

Chronic lung diseases are said to have become an epidemic (as with the war 

veterans), people lose their haor and it does now grow out again.

The text also says that immediately after the war trucks and bulldozers were 

sent to the area to scrape off the top layer of the soil - and then that no 

one knows where it has been dumped. It continues saying that still in 

October there were burnt out radioactive tanks in the city. In addition, it 

says that this has been done at a number of other places. Then the Americans 

put new soil back at these places.



Tomorrow begins with a seminar:

http://www.ki.se/onkpat/radfys/index.html

(Note the link with the seminar program)



As mentioned earlier, the whole program is here:

http://www.uraniumconference.org/



My personal initiative only,



Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com



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