Veterans Affairs committee  I think it would be fair for me to ask Pierre Morisset first. I have no objections to your having it. There's nothing in there that is highly controversial, but I prefer to ask Pierre Morisset first. I'm meeting him after lunch. He called me this morning. If he has no objection,

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. Could I ask one final question?

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. I have no reservations about touching uranium whatsoever.

Veterans Affairs committee  Of course.

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, could you arrange for a transcript of the precise questions to be sent to me?

Veterans Affairs committee  Is there any way my costs could be remunerated?

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much.

Veterans Affairs committee  One problem you might run up against, which we ran up against—and I have to be careful what I say sometimes—is that some of the operational issues in the Gulf are secret. In other words, you receive information, and they say that you can't talk about these agents because they're

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't know, because I didn't talk to the other reviewers.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. That's why it's used as a shielding material around some radiotherapy machines. It's light. You can shield with it better than with lead. It self-shields because you get gamma rays from the middle of the uranium. They never get to the edge of the uranium because it's shieldi

Veterans Affairs committee  Except that it would be dirty as hell.

Veterans Affairs committee  So I can't answer that. I could have contacted my colleague at IRSN in France, but I didn't. Peer reviewers should never talk to each other; it completely skewers the process.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. That's what I was saying about that watch. To be honest, the British cover their DU munitions with a very thin layer of aluminum to stop this dusty material coming off. It also means that people don't have to worry so much about contamination when they're handling the round

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, can I make a suggestion here? Rather than my trying to recall some of these things, would it be permissible for me to go away at some stage and then come back and answer your question in written form? Could I actually go back and try to identify some of these spec

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay.