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Review of the toxicologic and radiologic risks to military personnel from exposures to depleted uranium during and after combat /

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Review of the toxicologic and radiologic risks to military personnel from exposures to depleted uranium during and after combat /

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Committee on Toxicologic and Radiologic Effects from Exposure to Depleted Uranium During and After Combat, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Washington, D.C. :

National Academies Press,

2008.

1 online resource (xvi, 154 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction and technical background -- Toxicokinetics of depleted uranium -- Toxic effects of uranium on the kidneys -- Toxic effects of uranium on the lungs -- Toxic effects of uranium on other organ systems -- Radiologic effects of depleted uranium -- Uranium carcinogenicity and genotoxicity -- Evaluation of the Army's Capstone Report -- Appendix A: Biographic Information on the Committee on Toxicologic and Radiologic Effects from Exposure to Depleted Uranium During and After Combat -- Appendix B: Risk of selected cancers and nonmalignant diseases in uranium workers.

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"Since the 1980s, the U.S. military has used depleted uranium in munitions and in protective armor on tanks. Depleted uranium is a toxic heavy metal and is weakly radioactive. Concerns have been raised about the adverse health effects from exposure to depleted uranium that is aerosolized during combat. Some think it may be responsible for illnesses in exposed veterans and civilians. These concerns led the Army to commission a book, Depleted Uranium Aerosol Doses and Risks: Summary of U.S. Assessments, referred to as the Capstone Report that evaluates the health risks associated with depleted uranium exposure. This National Research Council book reviews the toxicologic, radiologic, epidemiologic, and toxicokinetic data on depleted uranium, and assesses the Army's estimates of health risks to personnel exposed during and after combat. The book recommends that the Army re-evaluate the basis for some of its predictions about health outcomes at low levels of exposure, but, overall, the Capstone Report was judged to provide a reasonable characterization of the exposure and risks from depleted uranium."--Publisher.

Review of the toxicologic and radiologic risks to military personnel from exposures to depleted uranium during and after combat.

030911036X

United States.-- Sanitary affairs.

United States.-- Weapons systems.

United States

United States.

Depleted uranium-- Environmental aspects.

Depleted uranium-- Health aspects.

Depleted uranium-- Military applications.

Projectiles.

Tank warfare-- Health aspects.

Chemical Warfare.

Military Personnel.

Risk Assessment.

Uranium-- radiation effects.

Armed Forces-- Sanitary affairs.

Armed Forces-- Weapons systems.

Depleted uranium-- Military applications.

MEDICAL-- Toxicology.

Projectiles.

MED-- 096000

National Research Council (U.S.)., Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.

National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on Toxicologic and Radiologic Effects from Exposure to Depleted Uranium During and After Combat.

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