62 30. Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium

LIDLIP made an oral presentation on depleted uranium that had been dumped in Iraq and Kosovo.

The use of depleted uranium (DU) in munitions is controversial because of questions about potential long term health effects.

Taking into consideration the potential harmful effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium on human health and the environment,

Weapons grade uranium has not been produced in our country since 1989.

In 1970, Mexico's national institute for nuclear research successfully refined weapons grade uranium which is used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons but in April 2010, Mexico agreed to turn over its weapons grade uranium to the United States.

2. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty third session an item entitled Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium .

The soil and coastal waters of the island polluted by substances such as lead, depleted uranium and arsenic, whose presence was a serious threat to public health needed urgent decontamination.

Contamination from toxic military waste, including depleted uranium, was a serious problem in Vieques and the draft resolution should require that the United States Government should fully cover the decontamination costs.

Furthermore, during the past 10 years, only about two thirds of worldwide demand for nuclear fuel about 68,000 tons of natural uranium equivalent are needed for 2010 was met from resources obtained from mining. The remaining 20,000 tons came from so called secondary uranium sources mainly inventories held by utilities and governments, re processed nuclear fuel, and stockpiles of depleted uranium.

First, Iran must halt all enrichment of uranium to 20 purity (a level required for research reactors, but only a short step away, in practical terms, from weapons grade uranium).

An ensuing arms race during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union produced tens of thousands of nuclear weapons that used uranium metal and uranium derived plutonium 239.

In nature, uranium is found as uranium 238 (99.2739 99.2752 ), uranium 235 (0.7198 0.7202 ), and a very small amount of uranium 234 (0.0050 0.0059 ).

We know that Iran has made progress with the centrifuge technology essential for producing the enriched uranium needed for nuclear weapons.

Low cost oil is rapidly being depleted.

Iran proclaims that its programs are for peaceful generation of nuclear energy, but inspectors have already found traces of highly enriched weapons grade uranium.

As Iran s uranium enrichment and other weapons development activities continue unabated, the US needs to make a break with the old rules of engagement.

According to Iran, the study demonstrates that the release of pollutants from the oil well fires, the oil spills and depleted uranium increased carcinogens in the environment, and this led to an increase in cases of leukaemia, lymphoma and carcinoma after 1991.

Now if you consider the fact that nuclear weapons proliferation is associated with nuclear energy proliferation, because we know for example, India and Pakistan developed nuclear weapons secretly by enriching uranium in nuclear energy facilities.

The Iranian regime should, at the very least, commit itself to halt uranium enrichment at 20 , a figure short of the threshold needed to produce weapons.

About 121 incidents were reported to the Agency in 2004, some of which involved weapons usable highly enriched uranium or plutonium being smuggled across national borders.

The most common isotopes of uranium are uranium 238 (which has 146 neutrons and accounts for almost 99.3 of the uranium found in nature) and uranium 235 (which has 143 neutrons, accounting for 0.7 of the element found naturally).

1. Requests the Secretary General to seek the views of Member States and relevant international organizations on the effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium, and to submit a report on this subject to the General Assembly at its sixty third session

Despite this, a French uranium company based in Gabon may have sold Israel uranium in 1965.

But, in the midst of those meetings, it was revealed that Iran has been secretly building a second enrichment facility with the potential to produce weapons grade uranium.

A regular supplier of uranium for China s extensive nuclear weapons program (while overlooking its record of facilitating Pakistan s clandestine weapons development), Australia nonetheless justifies its stance on the grounds of India s refusal to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

This is plutonium containing less than 80 per cent plutonium 238, highly enriched uranium (HEU) and uranium 233.

The great aquifers that supply water for irrigation are being depleted.

Palestinian households living behind the Barrier have depleted their coping strategies.

The uranium was delivered in 1993.

President Bush now argues that all along it has been the above board enrichment of uranium, not some other, secret program, that carries Iran ever closer to having nuclear weapons.

At the same time, replacement of the depleted trees is not forthcoming.

There has been significant investment in uranium mining and Namibia is set to become the largest exporter of uranium by 2015.

But months later, it is clear that the danger is not past, because Iran has not renounced the production of nuclear weapons, which its enriched uranium could eventually be used to fuel.

Uranium in the environment refers to the science of the sources, environmental behaviour, and effects of uranium on humans and other animals.

The Uranium Enrichment Technology (Prohibition on Disclosure) Regulations 2004 make it an offence to make an unauthorised disclosure of uranium enrichment technology.

Qadaffi exploited a network of opportunity. French controlled mines in Niger provided uranium ore. An undisclosed country conveyed a pilot uranium conversion facility.

North Korea s Kim Jong un I will surprise everyone by freezing our efforts to develop nuclear weapons and missiles, and I will prove my seriousness by opening our uranium enrichment plants to inspection.

(j) The Review Conference should encourage a moratorium on the production and use of highly enriched uranium, like the moratorium on the production of weapons grade material declared by certain nuclear weapon States.

Indeed, Iran may already be enriching uranium secretly.

The uranium was seized in a sting operation.

It has a smaller critical mass than uranium.

Other minerals include calcium, uranium, lignite and copper.

And, in many places, oil supplies are declining as old oil fields are depleted.

Hunting depleted one horned rhino numbers to near extinction in the early 20th century.