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Battlefield Contamination Brillantes, Jane Marianne G.
August 8, 2005 A massive sandstorm that left thousand of suffocating people hit Iraq Residents tried to protect themselves from this fog-like cloak of orange dust What they do not know is that DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) dust is usually so small that it passes right through the mask
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/depleteduranium-tests-for-us-troops-returning-from-iraq-508667.html
What is Depleted Uranium?
a heavy metal that is also slightly radioactive used in armor-piercing munitions and in enhanced armor protection also used in civilian industry, primarily for stabilizers in airplanes and boats what is left over when most of the highly radioactive types (isotopes) of uranium are removed for use as nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons
What is Depleted Uranium?
have chemical toxicity properties that, in high doses, can cause adverse health effects Depleted uranium that remains outside the body can not harm you.
[Department of Defense, Frequently Asked Questions, Depleted Uranium]
What are other weapon systems that use du?
Navy ships carrying Phalanx rapid fire guns are capable of firing thousands of DU rounds per minute. Some Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. ships and subs are DU-tipped. M1 Abrams tanks are armored with DU, as are British tanks. The A-10 "tank buster" aircraft fires DU 30-mm shells at machines and people on the battlefield.
[BBC News, "US To Use Depleted Uranium," March 18, 2003; U.S. General Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: "Early Performance Assessment of Bradley and Abrams," 1-2-92; covered also by Shirley, op. cit] . [."Nukes of the Gulf War," John Shirley, [email protected]. See this article in archives at www.gulfwarvets.com] [."DO D Launches Depleted Uranium Training," Linda Kozaryn, American Forces Press Service, 8-13-99] [Shirley, op. cit.]
DEPLETED URANIUM
"When a DU shell is fired, it ignites upon impact. Uranium, plus traces of plutonium and americium, vaporize into tiny, ceramic particles of radioactive dust. Once inhaled, uranium oxides lodge in the body and emit radiation indefinitely. A single particle of DU lodged in a lymph node can devastate the entire immune system according to British radiation expert Roger Coghill."
." ["US Shells Leave Lethal Legacy," Toronto Star, July 31, 1999; also "Radiation Tests for Peacekeepers in the Balkans Exposed to Depleted Uranium," www.telegraph.co.uk, 12-31-02]
WHY AND HOW DO MILITARY FORCES USE DU?
DU was dirt cheap, since it was the left over material from processing Uranium into nuclear weapons and was normally just being thrown away It is extremely dense, which enables it to punch and burn its way through hard targets such as tanks DU is used extensively in all armor piercing munitions
. ["Depleted Uranium: America's Military 'Gift' That Keeps on Giving", By Dan Fahey, L.A. Times, 2/18/01.]
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
A single particle of DU lodged in a lymph node can devastate the entire immune system Once exploded, DU munitions turn instantly into fine dust. This dust then mixes with the dust on the ground and starts to kill civilians who breathe it into their lungs. If people could avoid breathing this dust, they could avoid contamination and prevent the onset of slow, agonizing radioactive death. When a person travels through the battlefield, they breathe in the particles that are now lingering in the air, plus they get a lot of radiation on their clothes.
["US Shells Leave Lethal Legacy," Toronto Star, July 31, 1999; also "Radiation Tests for Peacekeepers in the Balkans Exposed to Depleted Uranium," www.telegraph.co.uk, 12-31-02]
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
that battlefield soldiers who inhale or swallow high levels of DU can suffer kidney failure within days Other soldiers that breathe in lesser amounts do not suffer immediately, but have a high chance of breathing in enough to cause serious problems later on.
["Depleted Uranium May Stop Kidneys In Days," Rob Edwards, New Scientist.com, 3-12-02; also "Uranium Weapons Too Hot to Handle," Rob Edwards, New Scientist.co.uk, 6-9-99]
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
"Any soldier now in Iraq who has not inhaled lethal radioactive dust is not breathing." every single soldier -- and every single civilian -- has tiny particles of Depleted Uranium dust lodged in their lungs, emitting radioactivity throughout their body 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
[Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops", Worthington, Amy The Idaho Observer, 4/16/03]
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
DU emits alpha particles, which are 20 times more dangerous than other forms of radiation such as beta particles and gamma rays. Alpha radiation destroys normal cells inside the body Although alpha radiation does not penetrate skin or clothing, particles of DU can "cause problems in the kidney or cause cells in the lungs to mutate and become cancerous," says Douglas Collins, a health physicist and an NRC division director of Nuclear Material Safety in Atlanta.
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
Cancer is initiated in a person when that person ingests just "one alpha particle"! When either a soldier or a civilian breathes in just one dust speck contaminated with DU, that person will ultimately get cancer. The process may take 3-12 years, but that person will eventually die.
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
Since D.U. poisons the air, the dust, the water and the food chain, the battlefield after the war will not be suitable for human habitation.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/depleted-uranium-tests-for-us-troops-returning-from-iraq-508667.html
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
Bassim Hachem Thamer, a formerIraqi Republican Guard anti-aircraft gunner, is supported by his brother, Hadi, a week before he died from Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer associated with radiation exposure. Thamer's tank unit was hit by American aircraft near Basra in 1991.
http://www.gulfweb.org
Protection
Systematized information dissemination discipline, camouflage, cover, concealment, dispersion, and immediate reaction soldiers take protective measures without receiving detailed directions
Radiological monitoring
detection of radiation and the measurement of dose rate with radiac instruments a number of individual measurements considered together can give a picture of the radiation pattern over an area
Avoidance of contamination
Detection and Identification
use of chemical-agent alarms and chemical detection kits
Provide early warning of contamination Determine the extent of contamination Find clear routes through or around contamination
Identify the hazard Mark the contamination
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/71-2/Appe.htm
references
REFERNCES: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000328085443.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041104005801.htm http://www.merip.org/mer/mer211/211_peterson.html http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=75 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/71-2/Appe.htm http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1877069 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/depleted-uraniumtests-for-us-troops-returning-from-iraq-508667.html http://www.sftt.org/pb02072003a.html http://cuttingedge.org/news/n2063.cfm http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/depleted-uraniumtests-for-us-troops-returning-from-iraq-508667.html
August 8, 2005 A massive sandstorm that left thousand of suffocating people hit Iraq Residents tried to protect themselves from this fog-like cloak of orange dust What they do not know is that DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) dust is usually so small that it passes right through the mask
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/depleteduranium-tests-for-us-troops-returning-from-iraq-508667.html
What is Depleted Uranium?
a heavy metal that is also slightly radioactive used in armor-piercing munitions and in enhanced armor protection also used in civilian industry, primarily for stabilizers in airplanes and boats what is left over when most of the highly radioactive types (isotopes) of uranium are removed for use as nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons
What is Depleted Uranium?
have chemical toxicity properties that, in high doses, can cause adverse health effects Depleted uranium that remains outside the body can not harm you.
[Department of Defense, Frequently Asked Questions, Depleted Uranium]
What are other weapon systems that use du?
Navy ships carrying Phalanx rapid fire guns are capable of firing thousands of DU rounds per minute. Some Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. ships and subs are DU-tipped. M1 Abrams tanks are armored with DU, as are British tanks. The A-10 "tank buster" aircraft fires DU 30-mm shells at machines and people on the battlefield.
[BBC News, "US To Use Depleted Uranium," March 18, 2003; U.S. General Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: "Early Performance Assessment of Bradley and Abrams," 1-2-92; covered also by Shirley, op. cit] . [."Nukes of the Gulf War," John Shirley, [email protected]. See this article in archives at www.gulfwarvets.com] [."DO D Launches Depleted Uranium Training," Linda Kozaryn, American Forces Press Service, 8-13-99] [Shirley, op. cit.]
DEPLETED URANIUM
"When a DU shell is fired, it ignites upon impact. Uranium, plus traces of plutonium and americium, vaporize into tiny, ceramic particles of radioactive dust. Once inhaled, uranium oxides lodge in the body and emit radiation indefinitely. A single particle of DU lodged in a lymph node can devastate the entire immune system according to British radiation expert Roger Coghill."
." ["US Shells Leave Lethal Legacy," Toronto Star, July 31, 1999; also "Radiation Tests for Peacekeepers in the Balkans Exposed to Depleted Uranium," www.telegraph.co.uk, 12-31-02]
WHY AND HOW DO MILITARY FORCES USE DU?
DU was dirt cheap, since it was the left over material from processing Uranium into nuclear weapons and was normally just being thrown away It is extremely dense, which enables it to punch and burn its way through hard targets such as tanks DU is used extensively in all armor piercing munitions
. ["Depleted Uranium: America's Military 'Gift' That Keeps on Giving", By Dan Fahey, L.A. Times, 2/18/01.]
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
A single particle of DU lodged in a lymph node can devastate the entire immune system Once exploded, DU munitions turn instantly into fine dust. This dust then mixes with the dust on the ground and starts to kill civilians who breathe it into their lungs. If people could avoid breathing this dust, they could avoid contamination and prevent the onset of slow, agonizing radioactive death. When a person travels through the battlefield, they breathe in the particles that are now lingering in the air, plus they get a lot of radiation on their clothes.
["US Shells Leave Lethal Legacy," Toronto Star, July 31, 1999; also "Radiation Tests for Peacekeepers in the Balkans Exposed to Depleted Uranium," www.telegraph.co.uk, 12-31-02]
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
that battlefield soldiers who inhale or swallow high levels of DU can suffer kidney failure within days Other soldiers that breathe in lesser amounts do not suffer immediately, but have a high chance of breathing in enough to cause serious problems later on.
["Depleted Uranium May Stop Kidneys In Days," Rob Edwards, New Scientist.com, 3-12-02; also "Uranium Weapons Too Hot to Handle," Rob Edwards, New Scientist.co.uk, 6-9-99]
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
"Any soldier now in Iraq who has not inhaled lethal radioactive dust is not breathing." every single soldier -- and every single civilian -- has tiny particles of Depleted Uranium dust lodged in their lungs, emitting radioactivity throughout their body 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
[Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops", Worthington, Amy The Idaho Observer, 4/16/03]
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
DU emits alpha particles, which are 20 times more dangerous than other forms of radiation such as beta particles and gamma rays. Alpha radiation destroys normal cells inside the body Although alpha radiation does not penetrate skin or clothing, particles of DU can "cause problems in the kidney or cause cells in the lungs to mutate and become cancerous," says Douglas Collins, a health physicist and an NRC division director of Nuclear Material Safety in Atlanta.
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
Cancer is initiated in a person when that person ingests just "one alpha particle"! When either a soldier or a civilian breathes in just one dust speck contaminated with DU, that person will ultimately get cancer. The process may take 3-12 years, but that person will eventually die.
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
Since D.U. poisons the air, the dust, the water and the food chain, the battlefield after the war will not be suitable for human habitation.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/depleted-uranium-tests-for-us-troops-returning-from-iraq-508667.html
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF DU?
Bassim Hachem Thamer, a formerIraqi Republican Guard anti-aircraft gunner, is supported by his brother, Hadi, a week before he died from Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer associated with radiation exposure. Thamer's tank unit was hit by American aircraft near Basra in 1991.
http://www.gulfweb.org
Protection
Systematized information dissemination discipline, camouflage, cover, concealment, dispersion, and immediate reaction soldiers take protective measures without receiving detailed directions
Radiological monitoring
detection of radiation and the measurement of dose rate with radiac instruments a number of individual measurements considered together can give a picture of the radiation pattern over an area
Avoidance of contamination
Detection and Identification
use of chemical-agent alarms and chemical detection kits
Provide early warning of contamination Determine the extent of contamination Find clear routes through or around contamination
Identify the hazard Mark the contamination
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/71-2/Appe.htm
references
REFERNCES: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000328085443.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041104005801.htm http://www.merip.org/mer/mer211/211_peterson.html http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=75 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/71-2/Appe.htm http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1877069 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/depleted-uraniumtests-for-us-troops-returning-from-iraq-508667.html http://www.sftt.org/pb02072003a.html http://cuttingedge.org/news/n2063.cfm http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/depleted-uraniumtests-for-us-troops-returning-from-iraq-508667.html
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