December 20, 2005
Serbia Cleans-up Depleted Uranium from 1999 Bombing
Nuclear experts and clean-up teams removed 3,468 cubic meters of contaminated soil from the Borovac site, 280 kilometers south of Belgrade, where 44 depleted uranium shells exploded.
Serbia's authorities have previously cleaned up two similar locations in southern Serbia following recommendations by United Nations experts, who analyzed samples of water and soil from the targeted areas.
The ministry said one more site remains to be cleaned up next year.
press release | Serbianna.com
~What a diabolical weapon's depleted uranium; it can inflict casualties for years and years.
I wonder if the American military occupying Iraq from now until(?) will be as fastidious? (How many US troops still in Germany? Korea? Japan?)
American soldiers in Iraq drink bottled water? What do they wash themselves in?
44 shells, that's just busy-work?
I imagine DU could be used by the authorities to explain many unspecified medical and psychiatric problems. Let's pray the terrorists never use it here.
[photo of Kosovo cleanup via
Is The Pentagon Giving Our Soldiers Cancer? 2003]
Before I started surfing the internet, I didn't know nukes were ubiquitious. I knew where the nearby nuclear power plants were, but nothing about depleted uranium or radiological medical devices.
Posted by Cieciel at December 20, 2005 10:37 AM