WESTERN governments are failing to conduct the tests needed to gauge the risk
posed to war veterans by exposure to depleted uranium, radiation experts
say.
The warning comes after the release of a German government study which
concludes that depleted uranium (DU) fallout did not cause illness in soldiers
who served in Kosovo 1999.
Critics say that neither this study, nor others planned so far, actually
measure how much DU the soldiers have absorbed. And it is this statistic, a
direct indicator of the amount of destructive alpha radiation in the body, that
really counts
(see “One too many”).…
