SOLDIERS in a tank hit by a depleted uranium (DU) shell could inhale enough
radioactive dust to double their risk of dying from lung cancer, concludes a new
report by the Royal Society in London. But the risks from DU for others on the
battlefield are so small as to be undetectable.
Shells containing about 270 tonnes of DU have been fired in the Gulf War and
the Balkans over the past 10 years, the majority by US forces in the Gulf.
Controversy over the potential risks to human health and the environment has
raged ever since
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