Radiation dose from depleted uranium can now be measured

@article{Mould2001RadiationDF,
  title={Radiation dose from depleted uranium can now be measured},
  author={Richard F. Mould},
  journal={BMJ : British Medical Journal},
  year={2001},
  volume={322},
  pages={865},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:683662}
}
EDITOR—In her editorial about depleted uranium McDiarmid agrees that there is no justification for any claims of radiation induced lung cancer and leukaemia in veterans of the Gulf war.1 She makes no…
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