HAVE depleted uranium shells been fired on Dartmoor?
The question has been put by the Dartmoor Preservation Association to the Dartmoor National Park Authority. But the DNPA's chief executive Nick Atkinson has told his DPA counterpart John Bainbridge that he has been unable to find out.
The Ministry of Defence recently said it had fired depleted uranium shells on ranges in Cumbria and Scotland. This came after reports that British soldiers in the Balkans had developed leukaemia from exposure to depleted uranium dust.
Mr Bainbridge commented: 'It may be true that the Ministry has only used these shells in those two places, but if so why will they not say so?'
He has also asked the DNPA to say whether any other types of radioactive weapons have been used on Dartmoor.
'We need to know what the MoD is doing on the moor,' he said.
'No-one is in control of the Ministry and there is no-one who can say if what they are doing on the moor is justified or not.'