  This work is an exposure assessment for a population living in an area
contaminated by use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons. RESRAD 5.91 code is used
to evaluate the average effective dose delivered from 1, 10, 20 cm depths of
contaminated soil, in a residential farmer scenario. Critical pathway and group
are identified in soil inhalation or ingestion and children playing with the
soil, respectively. From available information on DU released on targeted
sites, both critical and average exposure can leave to toxicological hazards;
annual dose limit for population can be exceeded on short-term period (years)
for soil inhalation. As a consequence, in targeted sites cleaning up must be
planned on the basis of measured concentration, when available, while special
cautions have to be adopted altogether to reduce unaware exposures, taking into
account the amount of the avertable dose.
