Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe?

Uranium weapons have been increasingly employed in battle action since their first use by the US and UK forces in the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Since then they have been used in the Balkans in the late 1990s, then Kosovo in 2000, probably in Afghanistan in 2002 and then also in the 2nd Gulf War (GW2) in March and April 2003.

There is now conceded to be no safe level of exposure to radiation. Further, there are major scientific questions over the risk models used to assess the health effects of uranium particle exposure from weapons use. In addition there is evidence of ill health in many of those exposed to uranium particles from Gulf veterans to the population of Iraq. In this paper we examine the trend in uranium shown by the measurements made on high volume air sampler filter systems deployed by the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston Berkshire UK. AWE have been routinely monitoring uranium in air since the early 1990s but since 2000 have carried out filter determinations from high volume air samplers (HVAS) every two weeks.

http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2006/DU-Europe-Contamination1jan06.htm

Depleted uranium from American and British weapons is causing all kinds of problems in parts of Iraq:

http://www.alternet.org/world/falluja-babies-and-depleted-uranium-americas-toxic-legacy-iraq

http://users.physics.harvard.edu/~wilson/soundscience/Al-Azzawi.pdf

Its got to have travelled.

Sassy wrote:Depleted uranium from American and British weapons is causing all kinds of problems in parts of Iraq:

http://www.alternet.org/world/falluja-babies-and-depleted-uranium-americas-toxic-legacy-iraq

http://users.physics.harvard.edu/~wilson/soundscience/Al-Azzawi.pdf

Its got to have travelled.

Indeed.

Depleted uranium from Gulf War 2 "Shock and Awe" bombing in 2003 spread across Europe and reached Britain within 9 days.

http://www.llrc.org/du/subtopic/aldermastonrept.htm

That really isn't a pleasant thought.