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...

is known as depleted uranium (DU), and is considerably less radioactive than even natural uranium, though still very dense. Depleted uranium is used as...

weapons. The primary civilian use for uranium harnesses the heat energy to produce electricity. Depleted uranium (238U) is used in kinetic energy penetrators...

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...

2021. "How much depleted uranium hexafluoride is stored in the United States?". Depleted UF6 FAQs. Argonne National Laboratory. "Depleted UF6 Management...

and toxicity of uranium and are nowadays mostly supplied with a plentiful cheap supply of depleted uranium which is also used in uranium ammunition. In...

case of the M1A1HA (Heavy Armor) and later American tank variants, a depleted uranium alloy. Some companies offer titanium carbide modules.[citation needed]...

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...

Depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUHF; also referred to as depleted uranium tails, depleted uranium tailings or DUF6) is a byproduct of the processing of...

country. Depleted uranium has 40% less radioactivity than natural uranium, but the negative effects should not be overlooked. Depleted uranium is not a...

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...

deformation, depleted uranium tends to out-penetrate an equivalent length of tungsten alloy against steel targets. The use of depleted uranium, in spite...

forces used depleted uranium (DU) shells during the battle. Depleted uranium shells use very dense and non-fissile (but still radioactive) uranium left over...

reprocessed uranium. However, there have been claims that some depleted uranium has contained small amounts of 236U. Depleted uranium Uranium market Nuclear...

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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their tanks with depleted uranium armor immediately before the onset of the campaign. M1A2 tanks uniformly incorporate depleted uranium armor, and all M1A1...

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...

a February 1991 Gulf War combat veteran to depleted uranium poisoning. Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (Spring, 2004) Also, a 2005 epidemiology review...

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...

cancer during the 1990s; these illnesses and others were blamed on US depleted uranium munitions used in 1991. Sanctions compounded the problem by blocking...

Retrieved 11 March 2020. MacKay, Neil (3 April 2004). "MoD 'lied' over depleted uranium". Sunday Herald. Woodward, Rachel. (2011). Military Geographies (1...

highly radioactive than their parents accumulate. Both enriched and depleted uranium provide examples of this phenomenon. The chemical elements came into...

Uranium-234 (234 U 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...

manufacturing process that improves the structural quality of the depleted uranium penetrator. This, the use of new composites for the sabot, and a new...

However, the landscape still is heavily contaminated with chemicals, depleted uranium and other materials, especially in the former ordinance area. The Department...

The National Engineering & Scientific Commission (NESCOM) (Urdu: قومی ماموریت برائے مہندسی و سائنسی علوم) is a Pakistani government-funded defence contractor...

center of a much larger mass of non-fissile material, in this case depleted uranium. Neutrons from fission in the core "breeds" new fissile material in...

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...

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...