Re: Depleted Uranium in artillery rounds

["Patrick D. Beyer" <pbeyer@post.its.mcw.edu>]

Just to clear up the terminology to prevent any misunderstanding.....

We are not refering to artillery rounds, but to 120 mm Tank rounds, known 
as SABOT. These rounds have a depleted uranium penetrator that looks like 
a small missle. I will see what literature i have on these......

1LT Patrick Beyer
Troop E, 105th Cavalry
WI Army National Guard

otherwise known as
Pat Beyer
Radiation Safety Specialist
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI




On Tue, 29 Mar 1994, PETER FEAR wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 11:12:52 -0600
> From: PETER FEAR <FEARP@VAX.CS.HSCSYR.EDU>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Depleted Uranium in artillery rounds
> 
> My boss has been contacted by several people from the local reserve group.
> They served during the Iraqi conflict and several of them have come down
> with illnesses.  Being a teaching hospital, these people have ended up here.
> They were tank operators and the rounds were stored in the tanks.  Also,
> after the conflict was over, most of the men explored destroyed Iraqi tanks
> which may have been hit by these rounds.
> 
> My boss (the RSO) would like to get some input from other health physicists
> concerning possible effects from these rounds.  He is a medical HP and so
> has only a limited knowledge of possible effects.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Pete Fear
> fearp@vax.cs.hscsyr.edu
> (for Craig Chamberlain)
>