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Russian Foreign Minister Sergery Lavrov says that Moscow is ready to assist Tehran in refilling its depleted uranium stocks.
The United States has decided to send controversial depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine for the first time, as part of a new aid package worth more than $1 billion announced Wednesday.
The depleted uranium is still radioactive, but has a much lower level of the isotopes U-235 and U-234 - way less than the levels in natural uranium ore - reducing its radioactivity.
In a suite of executive orders announced on May 23, U.S. President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ...
Depleted uranium is roughly 0.7 times as radioactive as natural uranium, and its high density makes it ideal for armor-piecing rounds such as the PGU-14 and certain tank shells.
Depleted uranium is a by-product of the nuclear enrichment process used to make nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons. It is around 60% as radioactive as natural uranium and its heaviness lends itself ...
Depleted uranium is still radioactive, but it emits alpha particle radiation, which is not powerful enough to penetrate human skin. Just being around depleted uranium is not a danger to human health.
Depleted uranium is a byproduct of uranium enrichment, the process used to create nuclear fuel. It is only mildly radioactive, but it is extremely dense — almost two and a half times denser ...
Depleted uranium munitions have been used in the Gulf War in 1990-1991, the Kosovo conflict in the Balkans in 1998-1999 and in U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The United States has decided to send controversial depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine for the first time, as part of a new aid package worth more than $1 billion announced Wednesday.