Qrast wrote...
What ever people say about the safety of this DU. It's still a by product from uranium which means it still have radiation that it can emits even if it's weak than the uranium.
In any case this so called Depleted Uranium have something that perhaps even the current science can't predict, what i'm saying is in the molecular level or perhaps even in the atomic level the still have some activity left for this DU to react.
If this is safe why U.S official didn't allow the domestic sales of the DU that is because they know that it's still have something in it and i mean radiation.
Please stop spouting bullshit. Radioactivity is a very well understood phenomenon and there's nothing special about DU in that regard. Tell me, if I had to choose between holding a long half life radioactive material and a low half-life one, which one should I do if I want the least harm?
Until you can properly answer that question, you don't understand radioactivity.
What does set *DU* apart, is that it leaves a fine powder behind that makes it easy to get contaminated by or ingest it. Uranium is a heavy metal, so even without its radioactive properties it's not good for you.
If the US (...and there are signs that they did) made "DU rounds" (though I would no longer apply this name to such ordnance) out of spent reactor fuel, then you're dealing with another can of worms. Unlike DU created as a result of the enrichment process, spent reactor fuel is contaminated with trans uranics and fission products that are several orders of magnitude more radioactive (...for a good 20 years at least) than natural or depleted uranium.