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McDiaemid MA, Squibb K, Engelhaedt S, Oliver M, Gucee P, Wilson PD, Kane R, Kabat M, Kaup B, Andeson L. Hoover D, Brown L and Jacobson-Keam D, Depleted Uranium Follow-Up Program (2001) Surveillance of depleted uranium exposed Gulf War veterans health effects observed in an enlarged friendly fire cohort. J Occup Environ Med 43 991-1000. 

Fitsanakis, V.A., Erikson, K.M., Garcia, S.J., Evje, L., S rversen, T., Aschner, M. (2006). Brain accumulation of depleted uranium in rats following 3- or 6-month treatment with implanted depleted uranium pellets. Biol. Trace Elem. Res. Ill 185-97. 

McDiarmid, M.A., Engelhardt, S., Oliver, M., Gucer, P., Wilson, P.D., Kane, R., Kabat, M., Kaup, B., Anderson, L., Hoover, D., Brown, L., Handwerger, B., Albertini, R.J., Jacobson-Kram, D., Thome, C.D., Squibb, K.S. (2004a). Health effects of depleted uranium on exposed Gulf War veterans a 10-year follow-up. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health A 67 277-96. 

No studies were located which reported effects of uranium on development in humans or animals following inhalation exposures for any duration. The Department of Defense has preliminarily evaluated developmental effects among service members who were actually or potentially exposed to depleted uranium. 

Although natural uranium has a low specific-activity of 0.67 pCi/g (25,000 Bq/g) and depleted uranium has even less (0.36 pCi/g) (10 CFR 20 Wrenn et al. 1987), it is reasonable to believe that uranium, such as highly enriched uranium with its high specific activity, may present a radiological hazard, especially in cases of human exposure (Kirk 1980 USNRC 1989). Three accidental exposure reports and health data from several years of follow-up studies are available (Kathren and Moore 1986 USNRC 1986 Zhao and... 

Walsh M Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boston MA Follow-up and monitoring of gulf war veterans with fragments of depleted uranium and other sources of depleted uranium. Department of Veterans Affairs Research and Development... 

McDiarmid M, Engelhrdt S, Oliver M et al. (2004). Health effects of depleted uranium on exposed Gulf War veterans A 10-year follow-up. J Toxicol Environ Health A, 67, 277-296. 

Abu-Qare, A. W., and Abou-Donia, M. B. (2001c). Determination of depleted uranium, pyridostigmine bromide and its metabolite in plasma and urine following combined administration in rats. J. Phartn. Bio Anal. 26(2), 281-289. 

Uranium—natural, depleted or enriched means the following (1) Natural uranium means uranium with the naturally occurring distribution of uranium isotopes (approximately 0.711 weight percent uranium-235, and the remainder essentially uranium-238). (2) Depleted uranium means uranium containing less uranium-235 than the naturally occurring distribution of uranium isotopes. (3) Enriched uranium means uranium containing more uranium-235 than the naturally occurring distribution of uranium isotopes. US 173.403... 

McDiarmid, M.A., Englejardt, S.M., Dosrey, C.D. et al. (2009). Surveillance results of depleted uranium-exposed Gulf War 1 veterans Sixteen years of follow-up, J. Toxicol. Environ. Health A 72, 14—29. 

For radioactive material other than articles manufactured of natural uranium, depleted uranium or natural thorium, an excepted package shall not contain activities greater than the following ... 

Carvalho, F.R, Oliveira, J.M., 2010. Uranium isotopes in the Balkan s environment and foods following the use of depleted uranium in the war. Environ. 

The advantage of using depleted uranium for the uranium foils will be pointed out in the following section. 

Determination of the D/H ratio of water is performed on H2-gas. There are two different preparation techniques (1) equilibration of milliliter-sized samples with gaseous hydrogen gas, followed by mass-spectrometric measurement and back calculation of the D/H of the equilibrated H2 (Horita 1988). Due to the very large fractionation factor (0.2625 at 25°C) the measured H2 is very much depleted in D, which complicates the mass-spectrometric measurement. (2) water is converted to hydrogen by passage over hot metals (uranium Bigeleisen et al. 1952 Friedman 1953 ... 

One potential problem facing the nuclear power industry is the supply of " fU. Some scientists have suggested that we have nearly depleted those uranium deposits rich enough in U to make production of fissionable fuel economically feasible. Because of this possibility, breeder reactors have been developed, in which fissionable fuel is actually produced while the reactor runs. In a breeder reactor the major component of natural uranium, nonfissionable -9zU, is changed to fissionable Pu. The reaction involves absorption of a neutron, followed by production of two particles ... 

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