[CPEO-MEF] Depleted uranium weapons in Hawai'i?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Doubts remain about depleted uranium

By William Cole
Honolulu Advertiser
May 14, 2007	

The Army says its Stryker armored vehicles have never fired depleted 
uranium rounds in Hawai'i, and there is no intent for them to ever do so.

...

The revelation in January 2006 that the Army had found 15 tail 
assemblies from depleted uranium aiming rounds used in a 1960s weapon, 
coupled with the Stryker vehicle's ability to fire rounds with the 
weakly radioactive material, is spreading new concerns that the Army 
says are unfounded, and some community members say amount to a potential 
health risk.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070514/NEWS08/705140355/1001/NEWS

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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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