WEEK 4 Jan 15th to 21st 2001

   WARNED AGAINST DEPLETED URANIUM AMMUNITION IN 1991

   As far back as 1991 the British Atomic Energy Commission warned, in a classified report to the British Government, about the lethal results of using depleted uranium, the so-called DU-ammunition, in grenades/shells, the newspaper The Times is revealing. In the classified report the British government's own control body warned them of the consequences of Uranium remains on the ground in Kuwait, both to civilians, and to allied and Iraqi soldiers' lives, that all human-produced radioactive material is just too dangerous to leave unprotected anywhere.
   The fact that Uranium 238 has a half-life of 4.5 billion years is also quite a heavy consideration in this and other matters.