Re: depleted uranium ammo

["F Dawson D Def H&S" <modsafety@gtnet.gov.uk>]

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> From: J P MCLAUGHLIN <MCLAUGH@acadamh.ucd.ie>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: depleted uranium ammo
> Date: 24 February 1997 15:55
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> 
> Hi  Radsafers,
> 
>     I would appreciate learning of published material dealing with 
> the DOSIMETRIC implications of ammunition produced from depleted 
> uranium. The reason is as follows : during a recent visit to Serbia I 
> was give an account ,by their radiation protection scientists, of  
> analyses and dosimetric assessments of  armour-piercing rounds made 
> of  depleted uranium which were found in the Serbian Republic  
> apparently as a consequence of air bombardment of targets in the 
> recent past.  (Presumably in the aftermath of the Gulf War the desert 
> is also littered with similar rounds.)  .............
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> James Mc Laughlin,Physics Dept,
> University College Dublin.Ireland
>  MCLAUGH@ACADAMH.UCD.IE   
>  
The following report may be of help

Health and Environmental Consequences of Depleted Uranium in the US Army:
Technical Report. June 1995. Which you may be able to obtain from:-

Phone (44) 181 285 7650
Fax  (44) 181 285 7699

Army Environmental Policy Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
430 Tenth Street N.W., Suite S-206
Atlanta, Georgia 30318-5768
(404) 892-3099