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peacepatri0t asked in Environment · 1 decade ago

Is depleted uranium really depleted?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If you're asking if depleted uranium (DU) is completely non-radioactive, the answer is no. Depleted uranium is an isotope of uranium (uranium 238). Typically the uranium needed in bombs is enriched uranium (uranium 235).

    Currently, there are MANY lawsuits underway to sue and stop countries and companies from using DU.

    Wikipedia has a good article on depleted uranium here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium

    Here are some other articles listing the dangers of DU:

    http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_ura...

    http://www.justview.org/depleteduranium.html

    http://toxic-torts.injuryboard.com/depleted-uraniu...

    I'm sensing a large number of lawyers jumping on the DU bandwagon though since I suspect there's a lot of money to be made if reports of depleted uranium toxicity are verified.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, but totally depleted uranium is known as Lead

  • 1 decade ago

    Only partly -- it still has plenty of radioactivity left, just not enough to be economically useful in a power plant. But quite enough to make people very, very sick.

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