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    Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope 235U than natural...
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    for nuclear weapons. Depleted uranium (238U) is used in kinetic energy penetrators and armor plating. The 1789 discovery of uranium in the mineral pitchblende...
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  • is known as depleted uranium (DU), and is considerably less radioactive than even natural uranium, though still very dense. Depleted uranium is used as...
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    the uranium-235 isotope (in comparison to depleted uranium), is still mostly 238U. Reprocessed uranium is also mainly 238U, with about as much uranium-235...
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    radioactivity of uranium and are nowadays mostly supplied with a plentiful cheap supply of depleted uranium which is also used in uranium ammunition. In...
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    2021. "How much depleted uranium hexafluoride is stored in the United States?". Depleted UF6 FAQs. Argonne National Laboratory. "Depleted UF6 Management...
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    case of the M1A1HA (Heavy Armor) and later American tank variants, a depleted uranium alloy. Some companies offer titanium carbide modules. These metal modules...
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  • manufacturing. Uranium is weakly radioactive and remains so because of its long physical half-life (4.468 billion years for uranium-238). The use of depleted uranium...
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    deformation, depleted uranium tends to out-penetrate an equivalent length of tungsten alloy against steel targets. The use of depleted uranium, in spite...
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  • Depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUHF; also referred to as depleted uranium tails, depleted uranium tailings or DUF6) is a byproduct of the processing of...
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    country. Depleted uranium has 40% less radioactivity than natural uranium, but the negative effects should not be overlooked. Depleted uranium is not a...
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    forces used depleted uranium (DU) shells during the battle. Depleted uranium shells use very dense and non-fissile (but still radioactive) uranium left over...
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    by depleted uranium'". BBC News. 2021-02-18. Retrieved 2021-02-18. Cotterill T (18 February 2021). "Gulf War syndrome 'not caused by depleted uranium' city...
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  • enriched uranium was referred to as Oralloy (Oak Ridge alloy), and depleted uranium was referred to as Depletalloy (depleted alloy). List of uranium mines...
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    a February 1991 Gulf War combat veteran to depleted uranium poisoning. Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (Spring, 2004) Also, a 2005 epidemiology review...
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    their tanks with depleted uranium armor immediately before the onset of the campaign. M1A2 tanks uniformly incorporate depleted uranium armor, and all M1A1...
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  • reprocessed uranium. However, there have been claims that some depleted uranium has contained small amounts of 236U. Depleted uranium Uranium market Nuclear...
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    cancer during the 1990s; these illnesses and others were blamed on US depleted uranium munitions used in 1991. Sanctions compounded the problem by blocking...
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  • records on velocity. In 2001 local people raised concern over the use of depleted uranium shells on the site given health fears which had come to light after...
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  • that depleted uranium is not a significant health hazard unless it is taken into the body. External exposure to radiation from depleted uranium is generally...
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    Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting for colouration. The proportion usually...
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    Uranium-234 (234U or U-234) is an isotope of uranium. In natural uranium and in uranium ore, 234U occurs as an indirect decay product of uranium-238, but...
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    be manufactured, but a total of 2,100 were actually made. 714 M101 depleted uranium finned spotter rounds were fired in training between 1962 and 1968...
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    barracks and military installations. In total, between 9 to 11 tonnes of depleted uranium was dropped across all of Yugoslavia. In the days after the Yugoslav...
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    manufacturing process that improves the structural quality of the depleted uranium penetrator. This, the use of new composites for the sabot, and a new...
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    However, the landscape still is heavily contaminated with chemicals, depleted uranium and other materials, especially in the former ordinance area. The Department...
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    decommissioning. Depleted uraniumuranium material with a reduced percentage of the fissile isotope U-235 following processing in the form of depleted uranium hexafluoride...
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  • National Defence Complex (NDC), (Urdu: مستقرِ قومی دفاع), also known as National Development Complex or National Development Centre, is a Pakistani state-owned...
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    to this low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel is mixed oxide (MOX) fuel produced by blending plutonium with natural or depleted uranium, and these fuels provide...
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    Uranium dioxide or uranium(IV) oxide (UO2), also known as urania or uranous oxide, is an oxide of uranium, and is a black, radioactive, crystalline powder...
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