Top radiation biologists attack DU Director of MRC Radiation and
Genome Stability Unit echoes LLRC's warnings on insoluble
particles of Depleted Uranium Oxide Dudley Goodhead is also a
member of the Royal Society's panel on DU An extract from New
Scientist report on DU by Deborah MacKenzie; 13 January 2001
page 5 The true extent of contamination with cancer-causing
uranium in soldiers who served in Bosnia and Kosovo may never be
known, because the test government officials are planning to use
to screen veterans will not pick up metal lodged deep in the
body. ... European governments are planning to test their
veterans' urine for uranium. "Nothing else is practical for so
many" says Alain Vilet of the Belgian Ministry of Defence. But
the most dangerous contamination might not show up in urine,
warns Professor Dudley Goodhead, head of the British Medical
Research Council's radiation and genome stability unit at
Harwell. Burning uranium forms small particles of uranium
oxides, between 0.1 and 10 microns wide, wh