Depleted uranium weapons export nuclear waste including unfindable plutonium traces abroad

Evidence

In a classified acknowledgement of depleted uranium’s perils, Britain’s Atomic Energy Authority warned that, in the Gulf War’s wake, depleted uranium could enter the food chain and cause a half million premature Iraqi and Kuwaiti deaths. By expanding its depleted-uranium arsenal, America is effectively exporting nuclear waste to foreign soil—nuclear waste that contains traces of plutonium, for which there are no safe levels. This nuclear waste also contains the uranium isotope 236, which does not exist in nature and has caused concern among epidemiologists. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 629

Categorization

• QUESTION: Britain’s Atomic Energy Authority internally estimated half a million premature deaths from DU entering the food chain — worth verifying this classified prediction’s provenance and later fallout.
• XREF: DU-as-exported-nuclear-waste advances ch.43 and ch.10’s themes of borders shifting across pollution and toxic legacies handed to successor states. — connects to: The Pentagon weaponized its nuclear waste to avoid disposal costs — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 628