Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I think in respect to the latter part of that, it has done very well, in that it has gone back and looked at all of the relevant epidemiological data for uranium. I can't think it has missed anything, okay. It picks up all the major studies.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll try to answer quickly.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  No, I'm just thinking, because it's actually quite wide. Where do you draw the line? line?

Veterans Affairs committee  Certainly most of the relevant research relates to uranium rather than depleted uranium. Has it picked up and reviewed all of the available evidence on uranium toxicity? No, it hasn't. But there again, the Royal Society report was two volumes thick. The IOM report was extensive.

Veterans Affairs committee  I agree with the findings there. As I said, it's difficult to know where to draw the line. I'll tell you why. Uranium isn't toxic, radiologically. It's not uranium that causes the problem. It's the alpha particle that is generated the moment uranium disappears, and an alpha part

Veterans Affairs committee  Pierre Morisset gave me no preconditions. He said, “This is the report. Can you go through it? Can you find anything that you think is factually inaccurate? Can you find anything that we've missed? Can you add something that will help?” Basically, I was given a free hand to compl

Veterans Affairs committee  I produced comments in the form of suggested changes. I have here all the suggested changes that I made. As I said, some of them were picked up, some of them weren't. That's fair enough. Some of them were a little bit to one side. But on things like depleted uranium, it's not an

Veterans Affairs committee  No. I've never seen any data that suggested there were any toxicological consequences to drinking well water. Can I tell you how the WHO derives their drinking water limit for uranium? They start off with something they call the “lowest observable adverse effect” level. They go

Veterans Affairs committee  A lot have been done, because these were the sorts of things that were used in sheep dips and things like that, where you had exposures among farmer populations. So there's a long toxicological knowledge of the effects of exposure. Similarly they had a problem in the Gulf when t

Veterans Affairs committee  I think it's fair to say that both in the U.K. and the U.S....but I am less familiar with the latter. I was asked to go there to make some comments on its monitoring program, but that was a while ago and I'm not sure what's happening now. My feeling is that there is still monit

Veterans Affairs committee  There were lots of issues. I'm talking about the Gulf War situation now rather than the Balkans. There was a sand fly problem, and so organophosphate insecticides were widely used. The tents were sprayed with them, and all sorts of things like that. People were given injections,

Veterans Affairs committee  The British are not using it in the construction of the Challenger tank. I believe that the Americans use it as shielding in the construction of the Abrams tank. But both in Britain and the United States, the armies use depleted uranium in anti-armour piercing rounds as one optio

Veterans Affairs committee  I often think that it's politicians' perception of public opinion that is actually driving things rather than public opinion itself. We did a survey looking at the acceptability of nuclear technologies in Canada, and we did it pre- and post-Fukushima. After Fukushima, acceptance

Veterans Affairs committee  Can I be brutally honest with you as well?