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Fortunes changed last fall, when Kenworth Truck Co., the second largest employer in town, cut production by a third, eliminating 500 high-wage jobs. The Piketon uranium-enrichment plant announced it would cease operations; and Mead Paper, which employs 2,200, told its unions to prepare for hundreds of layoffs...
...illnesses may lie in the ammunition used by NATO against Serbian armor and artillery positions in both regions. Not so, say the U.S., Britain and NATO headquarters, citing extensive scientific research by the World Health Organization, among others, to support their assertion that there's no link between depleted-uranium ammunition and the illnesses that killed the European peacekeepers. Still, the U.S. issued a warning on the dangers of depleted-uranium debris to all NATO armies joining the peacekeeping mission...
...Depleted uranium is attractive to armorers because of its high ratio of mass to bulk, which gives it the ability to pierce heavy armor. The by-product of the fuel-enrichment process used by nuclear power stations, it contains fairly low doses of radiation, but is acknowledged to carry some risk of cancer and other ailments if directly ingested, inhaled or absorbed through cuts. That knowledge, and the circumstantial link between high rates of illness and service in territories where NATO has fired large amounts of depleted-uranium ordnance, is enough to have European NATO members demanding further discussion over...
...NATO officials believe that Europeans are simply revisiting the "Gulf War Syndrome" controversy that played out in Britain and the U.S. over the past decade, and the alliance's military leadership believes there's no scientific link. Radiation levels from depleted uranium are 40 percent lower than those found in the natural form of the metal, which occurs commonly in the environment, NATO officials argue. U.S. officials point out that the Department of Defense has been monitoring 33 American soldiers whose bodies contain fragments of depleted-uranium shells as a result of "friendly fire" incidents during the Gulf...
...NATO's acknowledged leader, the United States, has signaled that it wants to get its own troops out of the Balkans as soon as possible. And the circumstantial link alone between Balkan service and leukemia may be enough to ensure that, like the metal itself, the controversy over depleted uranium will be around for a long time to come...