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An international report: the impact of depleted uranium used by the U.S. in Iraq a hundred times more than Chernobyl
Author: HAA
Editor: BK, MJ, NK
2013/03/06 23:54
Term Press / Baghdad
Unfold day after day the disastrous effects caused by the war on the Iraqi man and his environment, and most of those resulting from the use of U.S. troops and allied depleted uranium weapons against military and civilian targets on a large scale, particularly in the areas of southern and central Iraq, which is its ability group Dutch about 400 tons confirmed The impact was a hundred times more than those caused by the radiation leak disaster of the reactor, "Chernobyl" time of the former Soviet Union, pointing out that what aggravates the risk of radioactive weapons is the weakness of Iraq's ability to deal with them and the failure of international, especially American and British in this regard.
And reveals a report prepared by (Pace sunset) or a peace Dutch, on Wednesday, about "the effects of the use of weapons of depleted uranium in Iraq in the wars of 1991 and 2003", and seen by (long-Presse) that "danger more a hundred times the impact of an incident Chernobyl, and that Iraq needs to about $ 30 million to clean up more than 300 contaminated sites. "
According to the report which will be published on Thursday, and got (range Press), a copy of which, the "Mkhmnin claim that what used weapons of depleted uranium in Iraq was a genocide lacked scientific bases," stressing that "health concerns of Iraqi civilians are real fears and must be seriously taken into account. "
The incident reactor city of Chernobyl in the Ukraine, which occurred in (the 26 of April 1986), the worst disaster radioactive leakage and environmental pollution witnessed human so far, where the United Nations estimated the number of people killed because of four thousand people, and said the Ukrainian authorities then, that the number of victims of eight Thousands of people, but international organizations questioned the figures and predicted the death of between ten thousand and more than ninety thousand people as a result of thyroid cancer deadly.
And describes the Dutch Group, in its report, which was funded by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, said that "Iraq needs $ 30 million at the very least to clean more than 300 sites still contaminated Bahaaat uranium," noting that although "make some clean-up operations, many of the still contaminated sites as well as the presence of contaminated areas unexplored until now. "
The movement of the group in its report, an Iraqi official at the center of radiation protection, saying that "the process of removing the effects of pollution from each cost between 100 and 150 thousand dollars, which made the cost of that process between 30 to 45 million dollars."
The group warns in the report, "The spread of depleted uranium contamination through the poor who trade or dealing with scrap pieces of debris or equipment devastating military sites, including children."
The report set (Pace Group) Peace Dutch, that "the Iraqi government does not have the resources for dealing with this issue as well as not being able to extend its control to reduce trading operations scrap contaminated handles children also put them at risk."
The quantity of ammunition containing depleted uranium, which launched fighter jets and tanks in the wars in Iraq in 1991 and 2003 up to 400 tons, and organization says in its report that it fired mostly by U.S. forces, while the government said the United Kingdom, the British troops "fired less than three tonnes of This ammunition. "
According to the report, that "the use of depleted uranium in populated areas is alarming," expected to "be detected a lot of other sites nation affected by radioactive contamination."
The report is based on data on the "three expeditions organized by the group to Iraq between 2011 and 2012, and the information center of radiation protection of the Iraqi government, where select between 300 to 365 sites polluted by 2006, mostly located in the province of Basra, (is based, 590 km south of Baghdad). "
And secured a peace ", its" documented evidence confirms that ammunition and bombs containing depleted uranium fired during the war on wheels and small buildings and civil institutions, including building the Iraqi Planning Ministry in the capital Baghdad, "usually it" reinforces suspicions reassurances officials who said they targeted wheels Armored only to those weapons. "
The author of the report criticizes, Wim Zojnnberg, United States, for "failing to identify areas launched by the depleted uranium ammunition."
He says Zojnnberg, "I do not know exactly yet how many sites that may be contaminated or the risks faced by civilians," noting that "you do not specify these places reinforces the fear of the possibility of contamination with depleted uranium among Iraqi civilians on a large scale and reduce the risk of the effects of These weapons need of international aid. "
And depleted uranium is a radioactive toxic material, in the form of a solid heavy metal produced from the remnants of the nuclear power industry and is used in weapons of its high hardness, which can penetrate armor. But lead to pollution of the environment by radiation causes many diseases among the civilian population. Iraqi doctors were confirmed increased incidence of cancer and birth defects, where WHO is conducting an investigation of this matter with the Iraqi Ministry of Health.
This is the latest in a series proposed for research linking the bombing and the high rate of birth defects, has this study found that more than half of the children in Fallujah, (62 km west of Baghdad), of respondents of the survey between the years 2007 to 2010, were affected by congenital defect that is also one of six pregnancies has suffered a miscarriage in the same previous period.
The British newspaper The Independent published in the (14-October 2012 the past), a report includes a recent study on the city of Fallujah, also included children in the city of Basra, which was attacked by British forces in 2003 and showed that there are more than (20) out of every thousand were born with birth defects, according to the words of a hospital maternity in Basra in 2003, which is higher b (17) times what it was a decade ago, but during the past seven years, the number of children who are born deformed is 60% where now generates seven children Total thousand defects.
Tests revealed that conducted the study that the percentage of lead in the hair of children maimed in Fallujah top five times for the rest of normal children as the percentage of mercury six times higher in children maimed in Basra The study also found that the percentage of lead in their teeth three times higher for children in areas not contaminated.
Scientists estimate and specialists that the half-life of uranium about four and a half billion years, and even loses its ability to radiation needs to be (10) half of any age around (40) billion years.
This means that the areas bombed such weapons in Iraq (central and southern regions private), will remain contaminated for very long, and that their effects and negative impact on humans and the environment and animal will increase continuously with the passage of time unless special procedures bury and bridging these radioactive materials and objectives that hit (which What had started before the occupation of Iraq by the Iraqi government in collaboration of the World Health Organization and the Atomic Energy Organization and other international destinations) through special committees formed for this purpose.
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Author: HAA
Editor: BK, MJ, NK
2013/03/06 23:54
Term Press / Baghdad
Unfold day after day the disastrous effects caused by the war on the Iraqi man and his environment, and most of those resulting from the use of U.S. troops and allied depleted uranium weapons against military and civilian targets on a large scale, particularly in the areas of southern and central Iraq, which is its ability group Dutch about 400 tons confirmed The impact was a hundred times more than those caused by the radiation leak disaster of the reactor, "Chernobyl" time of the former Soviet Union, pointing out that what aggravates the risk of radioactive weapons is the weakness of Iraq's ability to deal with them and the failure of international, especially American and British in this regard.
And reveals a report prepared by (Pace sunset) or a peace Dutch, on Wednesday, about "the effects of the use of weapons of depleted uranium in Iraq in the wars of 1991 and 2003", and seen by (long-Presse) that "danger more a hundred times the impact of an incident Chernobyl, and that Iraq needs to about $ 30 million to clean up more than 300 contaminated sites. "
According to the report which will be published on Thursday, and got (range Press), a copy of which, the "Mkhmnin claim that what used weapons of depleted uranium in Iraq was a genocide lacked scientific bases," stressing that "health concerns of Iraqi civilians are real fears and must be seriously taken into account. "
The incident reactor city of Chernobyl in the Ukraine, which occurred in (the 26 of April 1986), the worst disaster radioactive leakage and environmental pollution witnessed human so far, where the United Nations estimated the number of people killed because of four thousand people, and said the Ukrainian authorities then, that the number of victims of eight Thousands of people, but international organizations questioned the figures and predicted the death of between ten thousand and more than ninety thousand people as a result of thyroid cancer deadly.
And describes the Dutch Group, in its report, which was funded by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, said that "Iraq needs $ 30 million at the very least to clean more than 300 sites still contaminated Bahaaat uranium," noting that although "make some clean-up operations, many of the still contaminated sites as well as the presence of contaminated areas unexplored until now. "
The movement of the group in its report, an Iraqi official at the center of radiation protection, saying that "the process of removing the effects of pollution from each cost between 100 and 150 thousand dollars, which made the cost of that process between 30 to 45 million dollars."
The group warns in the report, "The spread of depleted uranium contamination through the poor who trade or dealing with scrap pieces of debris or equipment devastating military sites, including children."
The report set (Pace Group) Peace Dutch, that "the Iraqi government does not have the resources for dealing with this issue as well as not being able to extend its control to reduce trading operations scrap contaminated handles children also put them at risk."
The quantity of ammunition containing depleted uranium, which launched fighter jets and tanks in the wars in Iraq in 1991 and 2003 up to 400 tons, and organization says in its report that it fired mostly by U.S. forces, while the government said the United Kingdom, the British troops "fired less than three tonnes of This ammunition. "
According to the report, that "the use of depleted uranium in populated areas is alarming," expected to "be detected a lot of other sites nation affected by radioactive contamination."
The report is based on data on the "three expeditions organized by the group to Iraq between 2011 and 2012, and the information center of radiation protection of the Iraqi government, where select between 300 to 365 sites polluted by 2006, mostly located in the province of Basra, (is based, 590 km south of Baghdad). "
And secured a peace ", its" documented evidence confirms that ammunition and bombs containing depleted uranium fired during the war on wheels and small buildings and civil institutions, including building the Iraqi Planning Ministry in the capital Baghdad, "usually it" reinforces suspicions reassurances officials who said they targeted wheels Armored only to those weapons. "
The author of the report criticizes, Wim Zojnnberg, United States, for "failing to identify areas launched by the depleted uranium ammunition."
He says Zojnnberg, "I do not know exactly yet how many sites that may be contaminated or the risks faced by civilians," noting that "you do not specify these places reinforces the fear of the possibility of contamination with depleted uranium among Iraqi civilians on a large scale and reduce the risk of the effects of These weapons need of international aid. "
And depleted uranium is a radioactive toxic material, in the form of a solid heavy metal produced from the remnants of the nuclear power industry and is used in weapons of its high hardness, which can penetrate armor. But lead to pollution of the environment by radiation causes many diseases among the civilian population. Iraqi doctors were confirmed increased incidence of cancer and birth defects, where WHO is conducting an investigation of this matter with the Iraqi Ministry of Health.
This is the latest in a series proposed for research linking the bombing and the high rate of birth defects, has this study found that more than half of the children in Fallujah, (62 km west of Baghdad), of respondents of the survey between the years 2007 to 2010, were affected by congenital defect that is also one of six pregnancies has suffered a miscarriage in the same previous period.
The British newspaper The Independent published in the (14-October 2012 the past), a report includes a recent study on the city of Fallujah, also included children in the city of Basra, which was attacked by British forces in 2003 and showed that there are more than (20) out of every thousand were born with birth defects, according to the words of a hospital maternity in Basra in 2003, which is higher b (17) times what it was a decade ago, but during the past seven years, the number of children who are born deformed is 60% where now generates seven children Total thousand defects.
Tests revealed that conducted the study that the percentage of lead in the hair of children maimed in Fallujah top five times for the rest of normal children as the percentage of mercury six times higher in children maimed in Basra The study also found that the percentage of lead in their teeth three times higher for children in areas not contaminated.
Scientists estimate and specialists that the half-life of uranium about four and a half billion years, and even loses its ability to radiation needs to be (10) half of any age around (40) billion years.
This means that the areas bombed such weapons in Iraq (central and southern regions private), will remain contaminated for very long, and that their effects and negative impact on humans and the environment and animal will increase continuously with the passage of time unless special procedures bury and bridging these radioactive materials and objectives that hit (which What had started before the occupation of Iraq by the Iraqi government in collaboration of the World Health Organization and the Atomic Energy Organization and other international destinations) through special committees formed for this purpose.
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