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陸軍にDU検査依頼殺到
陸軍兵士の劣化ウラン弾汚染でNew York Daily Newsのスクープが波紋を広げ
ている。しっかりした証拠つきだったので、陸軍も認めざるを得ず、他のメディ
アも報道せずにおれなかった。
驚いた帰還兵士たちは、陸軍に「俺のおしっこを調べろ」とサンプル提出をは
じめた。すでに提出８００名、順番待ち数百名という。ところが陸軍のテストが
まるでデタラメ。不適切な方法で検査しているという。明かに意図的なものだ。
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New York Daily News Originally published on April 19, 2004
G.I.s press Army
for uranium test
Hundreds of soldiers back from Iraq have asked the Army to test them for
radiation exposure after the Daily News revealed four members of a New
York Army National Guard unit are contaminated with depleted uranium.
Up to 800 G.I.s already have handed in their 24-hour urine samples, and
hundreds more are waiting for appointments, according to a source at
Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
But several independent uranium experts who reviewed one of the first
official lab results that Walter Reed doctors provided to a soldier last
week are questioning whether the Army's testing methods are adequate.
"They are using an instrument that apparently isn't very accurate," said
Glen Lawrence, a professor of biochemistry at Long Island University.
"The instruments they used are just not sophisticated enough to give
accurate readings," agreed Leonard Dietz, a retired scientist from the
Knolls Atomic Laboratories who invented one of the instruments for
measuring uranium isotopes.
The demand for tests was sparked by a News investigation that found four
soldiers from the 442nd Military Police Company are contaminated with
radiation likely caused by dust from depleted uranium shells fired by
U.S. troops.
One of the soldiers, Staff Sgt. Ray Ramos, was told at Walter Reed last
week that the Army's testing of his urine had come back negative.
Ramos, who has suffered for months from unexplained ailments, demanded
copies of reports from the two Army labs that analyzed his urine.
One lab reported that different uranium isotopes in the sample were "not
detectable."
The other lab listed an error ratio so large in its analysis that it was
impossible to tell for certain whether the uranium in Ramos' urine was
natural, depleted or enriched.
"We know the way this data is reported can be confusing," said Lt. Col.
Mark Melanson, the program manger for health physics at the second lab.
The main issue, Melanson said, is how much total uranium was found in
Ramos - and his total was 6.3 nanograms (parts per billion) per liter.
That "is within the dietary ranges reported by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and is safe," Melanson said.
The Army, according to Melanson, does not even bother to analyze a
sample for depleted uranium unless the total natural uranium
concentration is more than 268 nanograms per liter.
"That's an extraordinarily high cutoff," said Dr. Tom Fasy, a
pathologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
When told of the criticisms of the Army's methods, Melanson said, "As an
additional check, we are sending samples to the CDC for independent
analysis."
This is not the first time the Army's depleted uranium screening
operation has come under scrutiny. Last December, two congressmen
demanded an investigation of the program by the General Accounting
Office.
Reps. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Tex.) and Robert Filner (D-Calif.) charged the
Defense Department has previously misled investigators about soldiers'
depleted uranium exposure during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
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