Leuren Moret claims to be an independent U.S. scientist who works on radiation and public health issues. She claims to have been a staff scientist at two nuclear weapons laboratories. 5 years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,and two years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Inquiry under the California Public Records Act at the Berkeley Laboratory was referred to retired UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Ian Carmichael because Moret was not considered a Laboratory employee during her graduate studies in geology there. These studies were also much less than the claimed 5 years and did not involve radiation or uranium. The Livermore Laboratory stated that Moret was a Senior Scientific Technologist in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing and that her employment from 1989 through 1990 was for less than a year. Neither of these positions rises to the claimed level of Staff Scientist.
Education and Training
Ms. Moret earned her Bachelor of Science in Geology at University of California, Davis in 1968, and her Master of Arts in Near Eastern Studies from University of California, Berkeley in 1978. Ms. Moret worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 10 months from 1989-90 as a Senior Scientific Technologist in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing. She has stated that atomic testing has resulted in a rise of autism and lowering of SAT test scores, and that depleted uranium use in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world could cause birth defects across the affected area for millions of years.
Ms. Moret is a critic of the US use of depleted uranium. In 2003, she testified at the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan held in Japan. She was a presenter at the World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference in Hamburg, Germany, and at the World Court of Women at the World Social Forum in Bombay, India, in January 2004. She is a Contributing Editor to GLOBAL OUTLOOK, former member of the Community Environmental Advisory Commission for City of Berkeley, and a former president of the Association for Women Geoscientists.
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