Assessing the risk from the depleted uranium weapons used in Operation Allied Force

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1999-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9904061v2

Science and Global Security, Volume 8:2, pp.162 (1999) see also: http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/SciGloSec.shtm

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The conflict in Yugoslavia has been a source of great concern due to the radiological and toxic hazard posed by the alleged presence of depleted uranium in NATO weapons. In the present study some worst-case scenaria are assumed in order to assess the risk for Yugoslavia and its neighboring countries . The risk is proved to be negligible for the neighboring countries while for Yugoslavia itself evidence is given that any increase in total long-term cancer mortality will be so low that it will remain undetected. Local radioactive hotspots such as DU weapons fragments and abandoned battle tanks, fortified or contaminated with DU, constitute a post-war hazard which is not studied in this article.

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