Balkans
The Health Effects of Exposure to Uranium and Uranium Weapons Fallout
The element uranium is the basis of and parent of almost all releases of radioactivity to the environment, yet curiously, until it began to be employed as a weapon, it had been quite neglected as a hazardous component of radioactive releases to the environment. It is not measured routinely near nuclear power stations or reprocessing sites. It is treated as if it were natural: which of course it is, but its concentration in these places, and the form it is released in is not.
Depleted uranium, depleted health concerns
By Anes Alic in Sarajevo for ISN Security Watch (29/10/07)
Abstract: As a growing number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans meet their death due to serious illness, the specter of 'Balkan Syndrome' and the effects of depleted uranium are again in the spotlight.
Depleted uranium, depleted health concerns
Published on Swiss Federal Institute of Technology website on 20 October 2007.
Abstract: As a growing number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans meet their death due to serious illness, the specter of 'Balkan Syndrome' and the effects of depleted uranium are again in the spotlight.
Relation of Italian parliamentary committee on DU related diseases among military personnel
Report of the Italian parliamentary committee of inquiry on the deaths and serious illnesses that have struck the Italian military personnel employed in international peacekeeping missions on the conditions on the conservation and use of depleted uranium in military exercises on national territory. Published on 1 March 2006.
Second report of Italian Governmental Commission on DU related diseases in Bosnia and Kosovo
Second report of the committee established by the Minister of Defence on the incidence of malignant neoplasms among the military personnel used in Bosnia and Kosovo. Published on 28 Maj 2001.
Original title: "Seconda relazione della commissione istituita dal ministro della Difesa sull’incidenza di neoplasie maligne tra i militari impiegati in Bosnia e Kossovo".
Report of Italian Governmental Commission on DU related diseases in Bosnia and Kosovo
Preliminary relation of Commission of Italian Ministry of Defense on incidence of malignant neoplasms among Italian military personnel in Bosnia and Kosovo. Published on 19 March 2001.
Original title: "Relazione preliminare della commissione istituita dal ministro della Difesa sull’incidenza di neoplasie maligne tra i militari impiegati in Bosnia e Kossovo".
US Department of Transportation rules against secret shipments of radioactive munitions by the Department of Defense
Press release by Ground zero center for nonviolent action. Published on 8 June 2005.
UK's Depleted Uranium Oversight Board Release Final Report
Submitted to the Undersecretary of State for Defence. Published on February 2007.
Abstracts: The Depleted Uranium Oversight Board (DUOB) was established in 2001 to oversee a testing programme for British veterans (military and civilian) who wished to know whether they had been significantly exposed to depleted uranium (DU) in the 1990/91 Gulf War or during later military operations in the Balkans.
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