The military use of DU poses threats to both humans and the environment also, the expense of DU clean up seems to be immense.

(a) Source material natural or depleted uranium and thorium

In the definition of Natural Uranium (under Uranium natural, depleted, enriched ) replace chemically separated uranium with uranium (which may be chemically separated) .

62 30. Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL, EXCEPTED PACKAGE ARTICLES MANUFACTURED FROM NATURAL URANIUM or DEPLETED URANIUM or NATURAL THORIUM .

For example, DU may cause deaths and serious illnesses, disabilities and birth defects long after its war time use in weapons.

In the case of the use of weapons containing DU, the land will never be useful for agricultural use the half life of DU is 4.5 billion years.

United Kingdom officials have admitted on a number of occasions that depleted uranium missiles were used.

2.7.3.2 (a)(ii) Amend to read Natural uranium, depleted uranium, natural thorium or their compounds or mixtures, providing they are unirradiated and in solid or liquid form .

Again using DU as an example, contaminants from DU weapons can enter the water supply (groundwater, lakes and streams, reservoirs, etc.) far away from the location where the weapons were actually used in combat.

According to the Pentagon's own rules, the military was not allowed to practise with depleted uranium.

Taking into consideration the potential harmful effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium on human health and the environment,

LIDLIP made an oral presentation on depleted uranium that had been dumped in Iraq and Kosovo.

With regard to Vieques, the United States Navy had admitted firing 263 rounds of depleted uranium shells in 1999.

In paragraph 23 of the section containing comments provided by non governmental organizations, International Educational Development, Inc. states that quot DU may cause death and serious illnesses, disabilities and birth defects long after its war time use in weapons.

In their war against Iraq, the Allied forces used internationally proscribed weapons such as missiles containing depleted uranium.

Uranium

In the report, Mr. Arkin states that 940,000 30 mm shells, each containing 300 grams of DU, were fired from A 10 aircraft, and that 4,000 120 mm shells, each containing one kilogram of DU, were fired from tanks.

Those explosions redistributed depleted uranium dust and other contaminants which were then carried downwind.

Nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weaponry and weaponry containing depleted uranium (hereinafter referred to as DU) are all fundamentally indiscriminate and uncontainable, have severe residual effects long after the war is over, cause undue suffering and harm the environment.

Use of depleted uranium weapons was weakening the human species because of the exposure to low level radiation and resulting lowering of immune systems.

It can therefore be estimated that a total of approximately 300 tons of DU was dropped on Iraq and Iraqi forces in Kuwait.

The use of depleted uranium based ammunition against Iraq has led to an increase in the incidence of cancer, miscarriage, disorders of the nervous system and foetal abnormalities.

(b) Special fissionable material plutonium 239, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotopes 235 or 233.

2. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty third session an item entitled Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium .

Depleted uranium left radioactive poison dust which was easily inhaled or ingested and which caused many illnesses and genetic deformities.

And then we get to uranium.

Brazil has developed wide ranging production capabilities, from mining and processing of uranium to UO2 and nuclear fuel element production, all the way to isotopic uranium enrichment.

The soil and coastal waters of the island polluted by substances such as lead, depleted uranium and arsenic, whose presence was a serious threat to public health needed urgent decontamination.

70. Reportedly, the use of hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) bullets in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm (1991) coupled with unexplained illnesses experienced by veterans who had been exposed to numerous potentially toxic substances have focused public attention on a possible link between these illnesses and the health hazards associated with DU munitions.

According to United States Government documents, short term effects of high doses of DU can result in death, while long term effects of low doses have been implicated in cancer.

Uranium mining and milling operations

Oh, yes, to the uranium mine.

There were no hospitals in Puerto Rico to test properly for the presence of depleted uranium. Nor were there any birth records to keep track of birth defects.

It remains in the soil, water supply and atmosphere for generations, rendering water supplies and agricultural land unusable.

It remains in the soil, water supply and atmosphere for generations, rendering water supplies and agricultural land unusable.

According to United States Government documents, short term effects of high doses of DU can result in death, while long term effects of low doses have been implicated in cancer quot .

The Uranium Enrichment Technology (Prohibition on Disclosure) Regulations 2004 make it an offence to make an unauthorised disclosure of uranium enrichment technology.

Yet, DU munitions are sold in the world arms market and the United States has apparently led in their development, use and commercialization.

The war time use of depleted uranium also is likely to contaminate food stored in facilities that are not nuclear proof and few such facilities are.

Well, you need about 75 pounds of it.

Given prevailing winds and rainfall patterns, it is scientifically impossible to limit DU effects to even one country, much less to the legitimate field of battle.

Countries not participating in armed hostilities may also be affected, if, for example, their agricultural lands were affected by depleted uranium, chemical or biological weapons.

6.4.11.7 (b) Amend the first sentence to read as follows For packages containing uranium hexafluoride only, with maximum enrichment of 5 mass percent uranium 235 .

Other minerals include calcium, uranium, lignite and copper.