Leading Experts from Around World Convene in New York on Depleted Uranium Controversy

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Leading Experts from Around World Convene in New York on Depleted Uranium

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Leading Experts from Around World Convene in New York on Depleted Uranium

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON, Jun. 11 -/E-Wire/-- The Nuclear Policy Research Institute (NPRI) will sponsor a public symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine on the Health Effects of Depleted Uranium Munitions, which has gathered from around the world leading experts, scientists and advocates who have arrived in New York and are now available for interviews. The New York Academy of Medicine is located on Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street in Manhattan. The symposium takes place June 14 from 8:45am through 5:15pm. For complete information and on-line registration, go to www.nuclearpolicy.org.

The event focuses on the potential toxic effects of depleted uranium and the legal ramifications for its use, especially with regard to the controversy over clean up of munitions and tanks scattered across Iraq in the wake of the recent war, in which vastly more DU in more populated areas was used than in the 1991 Gulf War.

The conference features presenters on all sides of the issue, including those who have been quoted in recent media coverage of the depleted uranium controversy and/or have done important scientific reserarch in this area. Leading scientists and experts will help refocus the DU debate on scientific and factual points, and present their findings in an accessible way . Policy recommendations will be presented and questions will be taken from the audience. Scheduled speakers who are available now for interviews include:

Helen Caldicott, MD -- President, NPRI; internationally known expert/author on nuclear weapons, Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Steve Fetter, Ph.D. -- Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland

Robert Alvarez -- Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies; Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy from 1993 to 1999

Dan Fahey -- internationally known expert on depleted uranium

Jan Olaf Snihs --Scientific Team Leader, Post Conflict Assessment Unit, United Nations Environmental Program.

Dr. Avril McDonald -- Researcher, TMC Asser Institute for International Law, The Hague

Hari Sharma, Ph. D. -- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Donald Louria, M.D. -- Chairman Emeritus, Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School

Randall Parrish -- Research Professor of Isotope Geology, University of Leicester; Head, Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, UK Natural Environment Research Council

Thomas B. Cochran, Ph.D. -- Director, Nuclear Program, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

George Woodwell, Ph.D. -- Founder, Woods Hole Research Center

David J. Brenner, Ph.D., D.Sc. -- Professor of Radiation Oncology and Public Health and Director of Radiological Research Accelerator Facility, College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

Thomas M. Fasy, MD, Ph.D. -- Associate Professor of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

TO REQUEST INTERVIEWS OR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT STEPHEN KENT AT [REDACTED-PHONE] OR [REDACTED-EMAIL]

Nuclear Policy Research Institute

http://www.nuclearpolicy.org

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