Evaluating the risk from depleted uranium after the Boeing 747-258F crash in Amsterdam, 1992

摘要

On 4 October 1992, a large cargo plane crashed into an apartment building in the Bijmermeer quarter of Amsterdam. In the years following the accident, an increasing number of people started reporting health complaints, which they attributed to exposure to dangerous substances after the crash. Sine the aircraft had been carrying depleted uranium as counterbalance weights and about 150 kg uranium had been found missing after clearance of the crash site, exposure to uranium oxide particles was pointed out as the possible cause of their health complaints.