Previous page, on earlier findings from the bomb craters.
Green Audit report

Green Audit has reported new findings of Uranium in the air filter from the engine of an ambulance which was driven in the Lebanon in 2006 until it was shot up on day 16 of the conflict between Hizbollah and the Israel Defence Force.
The report also contains further analysis of soil samples which confirm the presence of enriched Uranium.

Analysis of the filter contents by Harwell Scientifics unequivocally reveals the presence of enriched Uranium (EU), confirming findings of the same material in two bomb craters in the Lebanon. As previously reported on this web site, the crater samples have been analysed by two laboratories in England and Wales with very similar results.

The filter analyses suggest strongly that weapons deployed in the Lebanon contained EU and that contamination of the country has been widespread and significant.

The image below reveals the presence of a hot particle, probably about 80 microns in diameter. Two such particles were found by exposing half of a single piece of CR39 plastic the size of a microscope slide to part of the air filter for 15 hours. (The other half of the CR39 was used as a control and was not in contact with the filter.) In other words, two particles were found in about one square inch of the filter medium.
Most of the Uranium particles created by the impact of Uranium weapons are far smaller than 80 microns. Smaller particles will have passed through the filter fabric, especially those around 1 micron in diameter which are the greatest part of the particles arising from Uranium weapons. We are therefore seeing only the merest indication of the material that is available for people and animals to inhale. In the interests of public health it is vital that methods of monitoring the entire region are deployed with urgency

DIY Uranium detection technique The cluster of impressions (upper right) is an alpha star etched in CR39 plastic by a hot particle of enriched Uranium. Images revealing contamination like this can be made by placing a piece of the CR39 in contact with a sample (in this case, part of the filter from the Islamic Health Society ambulance in Beirut). Alpha tracks radiate from the Uranium as it undergoes radioactive decay. They impact on the plastic, creating an image which can be developed in sodium or potassium hydroxide. In contrast to the techniques used at the Harwell Scientifics and University of Wales laboratories, these materials are cheap and not difficult to obtain. The results can be viewed and photographed through a cheap microscope. Green Audit and LLRC can advise on method - email us via the link at the foot of the page. See our guide How to detect Uranium in the environment Click here

If this is happening to a piece of plastic, what is happening to children's lungs and thoracic lymph nodes? Particles are retained in these tissues over many years.

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The Green Audit report gives

• full results with methods
• pictures
• recommendations
• explanation of why other groups have failed to detect evidence of Uranium
• advice on simple DIY (do-it-yourself) methods for monitoring the long-term residues of Uranium weapons (Click here).

The United Nations Environment Programme team must use appropriate methods to monitor for Uranium dust in the atmosphere. Here is a link to LLRC's letters to UNEP. (Links to our reports on UNEP's earlier failings are on our previous page.)

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Report
Further Evidence of Enriched Uranium in guided weapons employed by the Israeli Military in Lebanon in July 2006: Ambulance Air Filter Analysis. Chris Busby, Dai Williams: Green Audit Research Note 7/2006 November 3rd 2006. Click here to download (a pdf file)

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December 2006: UNEP reports no Uranium found. Click here to see why - (they were using the wrong instrumentation).

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January 2007 UNEP has reported finding levels of Uranium which are elevated but which are natural (i.e. neither enriched nor depleted). According to UNEP the Uranium originates in the Lebanon. This is nonsense. The levels are 10 to 20 times too high. Reliable analyses of samples taken from the same area and in some cases from the same body of water at the same time as UNEP's samples unequivocahed Uranium. WHAT'S THE ANOMALY IN UNEP? TABLE 2 OF BUSBY SHOWS TOO MUCH 235 BY ABOUT 1.13:1.

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Note The Green Audit report this page discusses contains further analysis of soil samples which confirm the presence of enriched Uranium. The analyst says:

The 238/235U isotope ratio and the enhanced presence of 234U relative to 238U are unusual for environmental materials. I'm not particularly used to seeing this type of ratio but I think these results would seem to indicate enriched U? My values differ, but not by that much, from Harwell perhaps due to the incorporation of some of the underlying soil when removing the black surface layer plus inherent variability in the deposit.

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Predictably, Dan Fahey has started emailing again, picking at what he sees as loose threads. We refer the reader to his earlier attempts to discredit our work

• LLRC's response to Dan Fahey's Science or Science Fiction? (guess who was writing fiction) and
• Green Audit's response to illogical attacks by Fahey and WISE on the discovery that Uranium from Gulf War 2 was found in filters in England.

and more (yawn) about UNEP's failure to find Uranium in Dec. '06 which DF leaves aside.