If it’s depleted, what’s the problem?................
Probably dropping it on your foot.
The devise is a radiographic camera. The depleted uranium is used to shield a highly radioactive source, usually iridium 192. If it was cobalt the camera would weigh around 500 pounds. The 192 is usually in a stainless steel capsule about a quarter of an inch long and about an eighth of an inch wide with a small cable (pig-tail) attached to one end. The capsules when fresh are about 100 curies in strength and a short contact exposure (against the skin) can be lethal depending on where it’s at. If it’s in your shirt pocket be sure your will is in order.
Who cares? It's uranium! PANIC!!!
It’s uranium. United Peace for Justice has declared depleted urqnium to be as bad as Agent Orange and have vowed to make it a cause clebre.
The writer apparently agrees with that effort.
Uranium like lead, is a killer where ever it is found. The press makes it so.
Chicken Little lives