Theodore E. Liolios, "Assessing the risk from the depleted uranium weapons used in operation Allied Force," Science & Global Security, 8, no. 2, (2000): 163-181.
The recent conflict over Kosovo raised concerns of radiological and toxic hazard posed by the alleged presence of depleted uranium in NATO weapons. In the present study some worst-case scenarios are assumed in order to assess the risk for Yugoslavia and its neighboring countries. The risk is proved to be negligible for the neighboring countries while for Yugoslavia itself evidence is given that any increase in total long-term cancer mortality will be so low that it will remain undetected. Local radioactive hotspots such as DU weapons fragments and abandoned battle tanks, fortified or contaminated with DU, constitute a post-war hazard not studied in this article.
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