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  title info:
    title: Review of the toxicologic and radiologic risks to military personnel from exposures to depleted uranium during and after combat
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: Committee on Toxicologic and Radiologic Effects from Exposure to Depleted Uranium During and After Combat.
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
  name:
    name part: National Academies Press (U.S.)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 154 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "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.
  table of 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.
  note: 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.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-140).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Depleted uranium
    topic: Health aspects
  subject:
    topic: Depleted uranium
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army
    topic: Weapons systems
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army
    topic: Sanitary affairs
  subject:
    topic: Projectiles
  subject:
    topic: Tank warfare
    topic: Health aspects
  subject:
    topic: Depleted uranium
    topic: Military applications
  subject:
    topic: Occupational Exposure
  subject:
    topic: Uranium Compounds
    topic: toxicity
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: RA1231.U7 R4 2008
  classification: WA 465 R454 2008
  identifier: 9780309110365 (pbk.)
  identifier: 030911036X (pbk.)
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 080222
    record change date: 20191204153246.0
    record identifier: in00004508579