The NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE AWARDS
Asaf Durakociv, Canada
Category Education – 2004
At the end of the 1990s, the radiologist and expert on radiation damage founded the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMCR) in Canada after he discovered depleted uranium and even plutonium in US soldiers suffering from the then mysterious “Gulf War Syndrome” – and was advised to conduct research in other directions. Since 2002, the UMCR has maintained two research teams in Afghanistan, among others.
