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Radiation sources capable of being made into dirty bombs still unaccounted for in Iraq (highest estimate). Many were used in hospitals and factories, and 400 were stored at the Tuwaitha nuclear research centre, outside Baghdad.1
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Uranium containers are still missing after the Tuwaitha nuclear facility was looted. Civilians emptied the containers – which contained uranium-based waste – to use them to store food.2
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Cases of cancer in children reported by the Medical City hospital in Baghdad in the past year, up from 140 in 1994. Rates of childhood leukaemia and other cancers have more than doubled…
