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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, from what sources his Department acquired depleted uranium (a) materials, (b) components and (c) ammunition after 1992. (Holding answer 14 March 2001).
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, from what sources his Department acquired depleted uranium (a) materials, (b) components and (c) ammunition after 1992. (Holding answer 14 March 2001).
Asked by
Jim Cousins
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Spellar
(Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
7 March 2001
For answer on
15 March 2001
Answered on
15 March 2001
Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence from what sources his Department acquired depleted uranium (a) materials, (b)
components and (c) ammunition after 1992. [153197]
Mr. Spellar: [holding answer 14 March 2001]: The Ministry of Defence has made several acquisitions of equipment containing depleted
uranium (DU) since 1992.
Two types of DU-based ammunition are in service with British Forces: the UK manufactured 120 mm anti-armour round and the UK
manufactured 20 mm RN Phalanx round.
Phalanx ammunition is sold to the UK via the US Department of Defense (DOD). All of DOD's DU comes from three US Department of
Energy (DOE) gaseous diffusion plants: Paducah, Kentucky; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Portsmouth, Ohio.
Royal Ordnance, who manufacture the 120 mm anti- armour round, buy their DU from Starmet Corporation who in turn buy it from DOE.
They have no practical way of determining exactly where the input material came from. They believe, however, that it was mostly from
Paducah, Kentucky, but it was all produced at their plants at Concord and Barnwell in the US.
In 1998, Royal Hospital Haslar purchased equipment from ADAC Laboratories in which DU is used as a radiation shield. Hercules C-130J
aircraft, which use DU as counter-balance weights in their Flight Control System, have been purchased from Lockheed Martin since
1992. In December 1993, the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) acquired 2.5 tonnes of DU plate from AEA Technology,
Harwell.
In April 1999, the Defence Radiology Protection Service, part of DERA, acquired 62 kg of DU from Royal Ordnance Speciality
Materials, Wolverhampton for corrosion research. Most recently, in January 2001, three 30 mm A-10 rounds were brought back from
Kosovo for research purposes.
Subjects
Ammunition; Defence equipment; Imports; Procurement; USA; Depleted uranium
Date
15 March 2001
Reference
153197; 364 c675W
House
House of Commons