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Special Issue on Depleted Uranium

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 The Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, published by Elsevier Science Ltd., plans to produce a Special Issue on the hard science behind the depleted uranium (DU) controversy, i.e. on the environmental distribution, dosimetry and epidemiology  of DU in war zones and test grounds. Some of the topics to be covered in the JER Special Issue are:

 I. ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF DU CONTAMINATION
 · Distributions and Physico-chemical forms of DU in the environment..
 · Verification of DU presence in the environment through measurements of U-235/U-238 ratios.
 · Kinetics of DU in air, water and soil.
 · DU transfer mechanisms.
 · Exposure of the population - DU intake pathways.
 · Management of contaminated territories.

 II. HEALTH EFFECTS FROM DU
 · Acute exposure to DU.
 · Long term exposure.
 · Epidemiology of exposed populations.
 · Methods and techniques for dose reconstruction.

  There is at present a considerable research effort being focused on collecting data, modeling and building the theory pertaining to the behavior of DU in the environment and the effects of the usage of DU weapons on human populations (military and civilian) and on biota. The aim of the JER Special Issue is to collect in a single dedicated volume the knowledge available today on this subject. Because of the topicality and importance of the subject, the Editors of JER are willing to fast-track peer-review and publishing, while at the same time maintaining the high standards of JER. Thus, the deadline for receipt of manuscripts has been set at 1 June, 2001.

  Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts and address all inquiries to the Guest Editor of the Special Issue, P.A. Assimakopoulos, The University of Ioannina, Department of Physics, 45110 Ioannina, Greece, pasimak@cc.uoi.gr. Instructions to the authors with regard to the format of the manuscript may be found attached or at the Elsevier web site: http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/4/0/5/8/6/1/

 Ioannina, 12 February, 2001

 Panayotis A. Assimakopoulos
 Guest Editor