Other Awards and Honors
2008 Impact on Scientific Community
Bruce Napier Contributes to NAS Committee Report
Bruce Napier served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Toxicology investigating the health consequences of the use of depleted uranium in munitions. The first of two planned reports has been issued. This volume, Review of Toxicologic and Radiologic Risks to Military Personnel from Exposure to Depleted Uranium During and After Combat, has been released in prepublication form on the NAS website at . The book reviews the toxicologic, radiologic, epidemiologic, and toxicokinetic data on depleted uranium, and assesses the Army's Capstone Project estimates of health risks to personnel exposed during and after combat. The report recommends that the Army perform a minor reevaluation of the basis for some of its predictions about health outcomes at low levels of exposure, but, overall, the Capstone Report was judged to provide a reasonable characterization of the exposure and risks from depleted uranium. A second report is planned that will deal with public exposures to the residual contamination left in the environment after combat. (announced 5/1/2008)