Review of the toxicologic and radiologic risks to military personnel from exposures to depleted uranium during and after combat / Committee on Toxicologic and Radiologic Effects from Exposure to Depleted Uranium During and After Combat, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Toxicologic and Radiologic Effects from Exposure to Depleted Uranium During and After Combat.

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.

National Academies Press (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depleted uranium--Health aspects.

Depleted uranium.

Depleted uranium--Environmental aspects.

Projectiles.

Tank warfare--Health aspects.

Tank warfare.

Depleted uranium--Military applications.

United States. Army--Weapons systems.

United States.

United States. Army--Sanitary affairs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Since the 1980s, the U.S. military has used depleted uranium in munitions and in protective armor on tanks. Depleted uranium is a toxic heavy metal and is weakly radioactive. Concerns have been raised about the adverse health effects from exposure to depleted uranium that is aerosolized during combat. Some think it may be responsible for illnesses in exposed veterans and civilians. These concerns led the Army to commission a book, Depleted Uranium Aerosol Doses and Risks: Summary of U.S. Assessments, referred to as the Capstone Report that evaluates the health risks associated with depleted uranium exposure. This National Research Council book reviews the toxicologic, radiologic, epidemiologic, and toxicokinetic data on depleted uranium, and assesses the Army's estimates of health risks to personnel exposed during and after combat. The book recommends that the Army re-evaluate the basis for some of its predictions about health outcomes at low levels of exposure, but, overall, the Capstone Report was judged to provide a reasonable characterization of the exposure and risks from depleted uranium."--Publisher.

Contents:

Introduction and technical background

Toxicokinetics of depleted uranium

Toxic effects of uranium on the kidneys

Toxic effects of uranium on the lungs

Toxic effects of uranium on other organ systems

Radiologic effects of depleted uranium

Uranium carcinogenicity and genotoxicity

Evaluation of the Army's Capstone Report

Appendix A: Biographic Information on the Committee on Toxicologic and Radiologic Effects from Exposure to Depleted Uranium During and After Combat

Appendix B: Risk of selected cancers and nonmalignant diseases in uranium workers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611726782

9780309178068

0309178061

9781281726780

1281726788

9780309110372

0309110378

OCLC:

191905918