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Uranium risks haunt Kosovo survivors. NATO's use of depleted uranium in bullets and armor in the Kosovo War is suspected by many to be a reason for high rates of leukemia in the region today.
2018-8-3 Depleted Uranium in Kosovo 2 Depleted Uranium in Kosovo Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment Table of Contents Foreword 6 by UNEP Executive Director Introduction 8 Background 14 2.1 UNEP’s role in post-conflict environmental assessment 14 2.2 Depleted uranium 15 2.3 Assessing the risks 18 UNEP mission to Kosovo 20 3.1 Mission objectives 20
2000-12-31 Relatives accused Nato of a cover-up over the 31,000 rounds of depleted uranium ammunition used by US A10 ground attack aircraft to pierce Serbian armour. The Pentagon at
Uranium weapon fears in Kosovo A-10: Can fire depleted uranium shells By Environment Correspondent Alex Kirby. Russia's Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov says he believes Nato forces may be using...
The United Nations Environment Programme says depleted uranium (DU) weapons used in Kosovo should cause no alarm. Publishing its findings on the environmental impact of the use of DU, Unep says the radiological risks in target areas are insignificant. But it says there are still many uncertainties, especially about the safety of groundwater.
2020-11-29 Iraq and Kosovo may be thousands of miles apart, but they share the dubious distinction of contamination with radioactive residue from depleted uranium (DU) bullets used in American air strikes.After several years of silence, US officials finally admitted that 340 tons of DU were fired during the Gulf war. In Kosovo, American delays in providing details of quantities and target points have
The latest breaking news, Return to Kosovo: US `lost count of uranium shells fired in Kosovo' News. War in the Balkans: `It all went very well,' said the general. Home News.
De NAVO moet opheldering verschaffen over de plaatsen in Kosovo waar tijdens de luchtoorlog van vorig jaar is gebombardeerd met bommen met verarmd uranium. Dat zei gisteren Pekka Haavisto, leider
The public has again drawn attention to the issue of how depleted uranium, which NATO used during its aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999 to bomb Kosovo, affects the human body. The Court of Appeal in the French city of Ren has sustained the claim by the widow of gendarme captain Henri Friconneau, who served in Kosovo in 2000; the woman
2001-1-9 Only American planes fired such uranium-tipped weapons during the 11-week Kosovo air campaign, using some 30,000. Uranium is one of the heaviest metals, which makes it
2018-4-3 Our plane touched down in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. According to NATO figures, 10 tons of depleted uranium (DU) ammunition were dropped on Kosovo during NATO’s three month long intervention in 1999. Since information about the use of DU in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro is eve
Public Radio's Environmental News Magazine (follow us on Google News) Uranium Bullets in Kosovo. Air Date: Week of April 9, 1999. And in the Persian Gulf you can say, well most of it was shot in the desert so the risk is less. But in a place like Kosovo, where you do have farm land, you do have animals grazing, where it's far more lush, the
2020-11-29 Iraq and Kosovo may be thousands of miles apart, but they share the dubious distinction of contamination with radioactive residue from depleted uranium (DU) bullets used in American air strikes.After several years of silence, US officials finally admitted that 340 tons of DU were fired during the Gulf war. In Kosovo, American delays in providing details of quantities and target points have
The uranium concentrations in Kosovo lichen, mushroom, bark, etc., are in the range of 1.97-4.06·104 Bq·kg-1 for 238U, 0.48-5158 Bq·kg-1 for 234U, 0.032-617 Bq·kg-1 for 235U, and £0.019-235
2020-12-10 The case broke out in 2001 with the emergence of the first cases of Italian soldiers who fell ill or died when they returned from missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo countries that, together with Serbia, had been bombed by NATO in 1995 or in 1999 with depleted uranium bullets (DU Depleted Uranium).
A British scientist says the Americans' use of depleted uranium weapons in the war with Serbia is likely to cause 10,000 extra deaths from cancer. A British biologist, Roger Coghill, says he expects the depleted uranium (DU) weapons used by US aircraft over Kosovo will cause more than 10,000 fatal cancer cases.
Centre for Reasearch on Globalisation reports January 2001 claim by Yugoslavia's BETA news agency, of a 200% increase in leukemia in Northern Kosovo Bosnia It is estimated that 3 tonnes of DU were dropped on Bosnia in 1994-95, when NATO bombed the Bosnian Serbs at the tail-end of the Bosnian war, in Operation Deliberate Force (for once, an
News correspondents Anissa Naouai and Jelena Milincic, the authors of RT's documentary 'Zashto?' which means “Why?” in English –traveled through former Yugoslavia to Belgrade, Kosovo, and Montenegro and spoke to people who endured the atrocities and horrors of the war and lost their friends and relatives. “There is a bridge near the city of Nis, which was bombed at the time when a
The public has again drawn attention to the issue of how depleted uranium, which NATO used during its aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999 to bomb Kosovo, affects the human body. The Court of Appeal in the French city of Ren has sustained the claim by the widow of gendarme captain Henri Friconneau, who served in Kosovo in 2000; the woman
Damages for Family of Soldier Killed by Uranium in Kosovo Struck down in 2005 by non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The lawyer: “Although aware of lethal exposure to uranium, the Ministry of Defence
2018-4-3 Our plane touched down in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. According to NATO figures, 10 tons of depleted uranium (DU) ammunition were dropped on Kosovo during NATO’s three month long intervention in 1999. Since information about the use of DU in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro is eve
2020-11-29 Iraq and Kosovo may be thousands of miles apart, but they share the dubious distinction of contamination with radioactive residue from depleted uranium (DU) bullets used in American air strikes.After several years of silence, US officials finally admitted that 340 tons of DU were fired during the Gulf war. In Kosovo, American delays in providing details of quantities and target points have
UN hid alarming report, almost 10 tons of depleted uranium dropped on Kosovo. by Marco Co January 31, 2017. written by Marco Co January 31, 2017. A shocking text by Senegalese Bakary Kante, head of the UN mission in 1999 about the horrific consequences of the bombing of
2006-8-6 A string of high-level international delegations arrived in Kosovo in Tuesday to examine scientific studies into the potential health risks posed by the use of depleted uranium shells. The Portuguese defense and interior ministers, Julio Castro Caldas and Severiano Teixeira, came to Kosovo on Tuesday and met their country's contingent in the
2020-11-22 WHO Team to Investigate Depleted Uranium and Other Toxic Substances in Kosovo WHO news release Jan. 19, 2001 . Concerns about uranium-236 detected in DU used in Kosovo Scientists at the AC-Laboratorium Spiez (Switzerland) have detected traces of uranium-236 in DU ammunition samples found in Kosovo.
Centre for Reasearch on Globalisation reports January 2001 claim by Yugoslavia's BETA news agency, of a 200% increase in leukemia in Northern Kosovo Bosnia It is estimated that 3 tonnes of DU were dropped on Bosnia in 1994-95, when NATO bombed the Bosnian Serbs at the tail-end of the Bosnian war, in Operation Deliberate Force (for once, an
2000-12-31 The Pentagon originally denied that uranium shells were used in Kosovo but in March Lord Robertson, the Secretary General of Nato, said that 31,000 shells containing depleted uranium
Russia. 10th Dec, 2019. NOVOURALSK, RUSSIA DECEMBER 10, 2019: A sign on a container with depleted uranium hexafluoride at a storage of the Ural Electrochemical Combine, a subsidiary of TVEL (Rosatom). The plant, the largest uranium enrichment facility in the world, celebrated its 70th birthday in