WG: Depleted uranium, UMRC etc

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

My mail to Bjoern seems not to have been forwarded. I try now via RADSAFE.

The text is in English:



I am sorry, that I am not in Stockholm, it would have been funny to listen

to all of these "distinguished" experts!



But I have learned something from the comment in Aftonbladet: I did not know

before, that depleted uranium was used for "highly explosive bombs and

incendiary bombs". Did you?



Best regards,



Franz



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Hej,



Synd att jag inte är i Stockholm, det hade säkert varit roligt att lyssna

till alla dessa framstaende experter!



Men jag har ocksa lärt mig nagot fran Aftonbladet, för jag visste inte att

utarmat uran används i "högexplosiva bomber och brandbomber".



Hälsningar



Franz



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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von Bjorn Cedervall

Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. April 2004 01:40

An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Betreff: Depleted uranium, UMRC etc





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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