Uranium bullet puzzle at MMR

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Depleted uranium round a mystery 

Investigators try to determine how bullet found its way onto Cape base.

By KEVIN DENNEHY and AMANDA LEHMERT 
Cape Cod Times
June 8, 2004

It was just a single bullet, but it triggered many questions.

The discovery in early June of what appears to be a depleted uranium
round on Camp Edwards has created more questions than answers.

Army officials say depleted uranium was never fired on the Camp Edwards
training grounds. Then how did the round get there?

Was the round left by a military contractor? If so, why didn't the Army
know what they were using?

And is this the only round out there?

Military officials know little more than when tests in 2001 showed no
evidence of radioactivity at the base. There were no signs of depleted
uranium and no records of contractors firing the armor-piercing rounds.

The round, found at a groundwater cleaunup area called Demolition Area
1, is being tested at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.

At the Groundwater Study Program office at Camp Edwards, library shelves
are lined with three-inch binders filled with research that began in
1997 to determine potentially harmful contractor uses of the base.

But it is hard to track contractors who used the base from the 1960s to
the 1990s. Since investigation into environmental damage at Camp Edwards
began in the mid-1990s, many businesses have changed names, others were
bought out, others closed their doors.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/depleteduranium8.htm 

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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