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Adverse Health Effects of Depleted Uranium on Human

In Balkan and Persian Gulf wars, western forces took great advantage using Depleted Uranium (DU) in addition to their conventional weapons. Accordining to official reports, at least 320 tons of DU were used in southern areas of Iraq during persian Gulf war; and it is assumed that about 800,000 tons of unused DU exist in the world. On the other hand, day by day, eagerness of using this material as a new weapon increases. Determination of scattered radioactive material in biological environment is not possible and even permissible; and itʹs users deny every adverse effects on human and ecosystem and therefore they do not propose any decontamination program. This time, it seems that human being is exposed to a great long-lasting biological contamination by uranium. we can see its reflections as epidemics of leukemia and congenital malformations in Iraq and Balkan territories. In this article, chemical and radiological adverse effects due to usage of DU weapons are discussed.