[CPEO-MEF] Depleted uranium, National Lead, Colonie, NY

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Depleted uranium holds fast in Colonie
British researcher finds traces years after weapons plant closed

By JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST
Albany Times-Union (NY)
July 16, 2007

COLONIE -- Ph.D. student Nicholas Lloyd traveled from England to a dusty 
patch off Central Avenue last summer hunting for terribly small pieces 
of New York's polluted military-industrial past.

He found them -- microscopic specs containing depleted uranium that he 
believes may provide clues to how this heavy metal component of modern 
weaponry behaves on battlefields a world away.

Used for the first time on a large scale in the 1991 Gulf War, depleted 
uranium weapons have been blamed for sickening soldiers exposed to them 
-- even though the military says the danger is limited.

Research by Lloyd and others shows that Albany-area residents may have 
been exposed for decades before the first shot was ever fired.

While substantial questions remain about depleted uranium's effect on 
humans, Lloyd and others suspect Colonie, home to a long-demolished 
munitions plant, may be a good place to look.

...

For the entire article, see
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=606387&category=FRONTPG&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=7/16/2007

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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