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What is the half life of a particle of depleted uranium?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
depleted Uranium is U238 and it is the most stable isotop of
Uranium
It's half life time is 4.46 billion years!
Source(s): http://www.ieer.org/fctsheet/uranium.html - Anonymous1 decade ago
Uranium has 2 Isotopes - U238 and U235, U235 is stable (non radioactive and is 99.3% in natural Uranium. Controlled nuclear reaction depletes the 0.7% of the radioactive U238 to insignificant levels that make the residue Uranium unsuitable for continued reaction, this residue is DU. U238 has a half life of 5000 years approx.
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- 1 decade ago
Depends on which isotope you have, but Uranium 238 half life is in the billions of years.
- Richard BLv 41 decade ago
DU is not dangerous and is less "not dangerous" when it reaches its half-life.
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