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". – Mr President, the Commission's attention was given to the use of depleted uranium in armour-piercing shells as long ago as 1993. At that time, the Commission's reply to Parliament related to the specific issue of the test-firing of shells in coastal waters, and it offered the view that such action would not have a significant impact on the environment. The Commission continues to hold that view on the basis of the evidence that, in the marine environment, the only exposure pathway is the slow dissolution of uranium. It is important to note that the amount of uranium that could be dissolved is very small compared to the natural abundance of uranium in all sea-water.
The movement of uranium away from the test-firing location by tides and currents could not, therefore, be distinguished from natural background concentrations. The Commission understands public concern about the use of depleted uranium materials for military purposes. However, the Commission draws attention to the fact that the firing of uranium penetrators at land-based targets has implications which are different from those of firing ammunition in the marine environment, because use on land can result in the dispersion of uranium oxides which may subsequently be inhaled, whilst that is clearly not the case in the marine environment."@en1
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