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To: SkyDancer

Depleted of what exactly?


5 posted on 05/14/2023 2:49:42 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Non-radioactive. Uranium in the ground is slightly radioactive.


7 posted on 05/14/2023 2:54:00 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Natural uranium is about 0.7% U-235, 99.3% U-238 and a trace of other isotopes. Depleted uranium has had the more radioactive U-235 removed for bombs and reactors leaving the depleted uranium with a larger proportion of U-238. It is still radioactive, just less so than the same amount of natural uranium.


46 posted on 05/14/2023 4:35:54 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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