Depleted Uranium Measured in British Atmosphere

from Battlefields in the Middle East
 

February 24, 2006
By Leuren Moret

The Sunday Times Online, February 19, 2006, reported on a shocking
scientific study authored by British scientists Dr. Chris Busby and
Saoirse Morgan: "Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2 result in
contamination of Europe? Evidence from the measurements of the Atomic
Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK". The highest
levels of depleted uranium ever measured in the atmosphere in Britain,
were transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central Asia; of special

significance were those from the Tora Bora bombing in Afghanistan in 2001, and the

"Shock & Awe" bombing during Gulf War II in Iraq in 2003.

Out of concern for the public, the official British government air
monitoring facility, known as the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), at Aldermaston

was established years ago, to measure radioactive emissions from British nuclear power

plants and atomic weapons facilities.

The British government facility (AWE) was taken over 3 years ago by
Halliburton, which refused at first to release air monitoring data, as
required by law, to Dr. Busby. An international expert on low level
radiation, Busby serves as an official advisor on several British
government committees, and co-authored an independent report on low level radiation

with 45 scientists, the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), for the European

Parliament. He was able to get Aldermaston air monitoring data from Halliburton /AWE by

filing a Freedom of Information request using a new British law which became effective

January 1, 2005; but the data for 2003 was missing. He obtained the 2003 data from the
Defence Procurement Agency.
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