Explosives (residues)

Explosive Remnants of War

Explosive remnants of war Working Group on Explosive Remnants of War

Working Group on Explosive Remnants of War

(b) Explosive remnants of war

Explosive Remnants of War (ERW)

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

If we feed our food waste which is the current government favorite way of getting rid of food waste, to anaerobic digestion, which turns food waste into gas to produce electricity, you save a paltry 448 kilograms of carbon dioxide per ton of food waste. It's much better to feed it to pigs.

Tristram Stuart The global food waste scandal

Working Group on Explosive Remnants of War

RESPONSES TO DOCUMENT CCW GGE X WG.1 WP.2,

Reducing the ERW problem

International Humanitarian Law and ERW

Prepared by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America in consultation with the International Committee of the Red Cross

The uranium was seized in a sting operation.

The uranium was delivered in 1993.

Such uranium was the material of choice for terrorists.

Working Group on Explosive Remnants of War

Humanitarian threat posed by ERW

ERW clearance in theatre

The Mandate of the Working Group on ERW

The organ which is most affected is the kidney.

For example, garbage discharge, something you would think just simply goes away, but the laws regulating ship discharge of garbage actually get weaker the further you are from shore.

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 ).

Featured in these images is a new tunnel entrance near the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) at Esfahan and continued construction at the Natanz uranium enrichment site.

Iran responded to the demand to stop enrichment of uranium 24 August 2006, offering to return to the negotiation table but refusing to end enrichment.

On 9 April 2007, Iran announced that it has begun enriching uranium with 3 000 centrifuges, presumably at Natanz enrichment site.

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

The latter includes the discharge of sewage and the generation of solid waste.

ERW bad luck or bad intent

It has a smaller critical mass than uranium.

The armed rebellion has ended but it has had after effects, including armed banditry, bringing about lasting vulnerability.

In most of these cases, however, low enriched uranium (LEU) can be substituted for HEU, or other techniques can be applied to achieve the required results.

Encouraged by the rich uranium deposits the Namibian government plans to erect its first nuclear power station by 2018, also uranium enrichment is envisaged to happen locally.

The state is not a relic of bygone times, displaced by global accountability.

By the Chairperson of the Meeting of the Military and Technical Experts on ERW

Nuclear power requires low enriched uranium as fuel. Enrich it further, in the same facilities, and you have bomb grade highly enriched uranium (HEU).

Indeed, Iran may already be enriching uranium secretly.

Because of its uranium content, the mineral is radioactive.

Times have changed, and Saddam Hussein and his oppressive regime are things of the past.

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

Agreement on the supply and leasing of enriched uranium and the transfer of equipment and special nuclear materials

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.

LEU cannot be used to make weapons.

This feature is available only to nations with a great wealth of fissile uranium.