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.

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

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.

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.

This depleted his financial resources.

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

You drive. You take your depleted battery out.

And then we get to uranium.

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

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

Fishermen knew about these things they caught them, and they depleted them.

There's great concern that basking sharks are depleted all throughout the world.

Other minerals include calcium, uranium, lignite and copper.

So, uranium, which is very big, wants to split.

Such uranium was the material of choice for terrorists.

Because the sloth bears in the wild were obviously getting depleted because of this.

Current projections indicate that uranium shortages in the coming years can be avoided only if existing and new uranium mines operate according to plan. Indeed, extrapolations of global supply that foresee an increase in uranium mining are based on claims about the ability to expand output in Kazakhstan.

What would it take to essentially eliminate Iran s uranium enrichment effort?

And you have the uranium mining that you have to deal with.

And with current reactor technology we really don't have very much uranium.

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

Rogers It's a Geiger Counter, used to locate radioactive minerals, such as uranium.

This is of crucial importance to us, as our uranium resources are modest.

Uranium and other radioactive substances, products made of such substances and radioactive waste

The nuclear materials in question are plutonium, uranium, thorium, deuterium, tritium and lithium 6.

Interestingly enough, they also do this with uranium and chromium, and various other toxic metals.

Combating the risk of nuclear terrorism by reducing the civilian use of highly enriched uranium

It also had to verify the origin of the enriched uranium particles found at a number of locations, and find out how the Islamic Republic of Iran had come into possession of a P 2 uranium enrichment centrifuge technology.

As prime food sources are depleted, the harvest goes deeper into the oceans and brings in more such sources of protein.

The depleted economy had lost the gains it had achieved during 15 years of growth, and as a result, poverty was widespread.

If there is too much uranium or potassium or thorium, probably, again, there would be no life.

Every effort must be made to eliminate all uses of highly enriched uranium in civilian nuclear programmes.

Third, we have already used up many of the low cost options that were once available. Low cost oil is rapidly being depleted.

Traditional fisheries are rapidly being depleted as local laws are changed to commercialize publicly owned fisheries for the benefit of large industrial vessels.

At the core of these beliefs are traditions that allowed sea turtles to be consumed as food but prevented them from being depleted.

High seas MPAs would aid the recovery of depleted and overfished fish stocks thereby creating employment and ensuring food security for coastal communities.

This includes, in accordance with the IAEA definition, nuclear material that can be used for the manufacture of nuclear explosive devices without further adaptation or additional enrichment. This is plutonium containing less than 80 per cent plutonium 238, highly enriched uranium (HEU) and uranium 233.

And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

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

And it declined very fast a classic boom and bust fishery, which suggests that a stock has been depleted or there's low reproductive rates.

However, it was a matter of concern that no pledges had been received in over a year and that the Trust Fund remained depleted.

The Panel considers that Iran has overestimated the total area of rangelands that could have been damaged or depleted by the presence of refugees.