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DU Symposium in NYC - June 14, 2003
from: Stephen Kent, June
10, 2003
Please visit the www.nuclearpolicy.org website and register
for this DU symposium Saturday, June 14 in New York. It's
an important and very rare opportunity at a public forum to cut
through the intensely politicized and media-spun DU debate
and bring to light the best available scientific, medical and legal
information on health and environmental effects, legality, and the
need for monitoring and clean-up. Guaranteed to hone your
arguments, a good platform to register your voice on this urgent
issue. See below -- Steve Kent
MEDIA ALERT & CONFERENCE INVITATION
Source: Nuclear Policy Research Institute
1925 K Street NW, Suite 210, Washington, DC 20006 ph / 202-822-9800
fax/
202-822-9272
Contact: Christine Haenn 202/822-9800; Christine@nuclearpolicy.org
June 14 New York Symposium On Depleted Uranium
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Nuclear Policy Research Institute (NPRI)
will sponsor a public symposium on June 14, 2003 at the New
York Academy of Medicine on the Health Effects of Depleted Uranium
Munitions. The New York Academy of Medicine is
located on Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street in Manhattan. The
symposium takes place from 8:45am through 5:15pm. For complete
information and on-line registration, go to www.nuclearpolicy.org.
The event will focus on the potential medical 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 symposium gathers from around the world experts 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 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, departing June 15 for Iraq on a DU fact-finding
mission
Concerned citizens, scientists and journalists are encouraged to
attend.
For further media information, please call or email Christine Haenn
202/822-9800,
mailto:Christine@nuclearpolicy.org
Public information also available at http://www.nuclearpolicy.org
