Assessing the risk from the depleted uranium weapons used in Operation Allied Force
| dc.creator | Liolios, Theodore E. | |
| dc.date | 1999-04-28 | |
| dc.date | 1999-12-18 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T05:56:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T05:56:56Z | |
| dc.description | The conflict in Yugoslavia has been a source of great concern due to the radiological and toxic hazard posed by the alleged presence of depleted uranium in NATO weapons. In the present study some worst-case scenaria are assumed in order to assess the risk for Yugoslavia and its neighboring countries . The risk is proved to be negligible for the neighboring countries while for Yugoslavia itself evidence is given that any increase in total long-term cancer mortality will be so low that it will remain undetected. Local radioactive hotspots such as DU weapons fragments and abandoned battle tanks, fortified or contaminated with DU, constitute a post-war hazard which is not studied in this article. | |
| dc.description | All Comments are Welcome | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9904061 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9904061 | |
| dc.identifier | Science and Global Security, Volume 8:2, pp.162 (1999) see also: http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/SciGloSec.shtml | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/87801 | |
| dc.subject | Medical Physics | |
| dc.title | Assessing the risk from the depleted uranium weapons used in Operation Allied Force | |
| dc.type | text |