Explore: Environmental Aspects Of Depleted Uranium

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

The opposite of enriching is downblending. Surplus highly enriched uranium can be downblended with depleted uranium or natural uranium to turn it into

hardened with depleted uranium plates. The use of depleted uranium became politically and environmentally contentious after the use of such munitions by the

Custard Glass?". Betti, Maria (2003). "Civil use of depleted uranium" (PDF). Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 64 (2–3). Elsevier: 113–119. Bibcode:2003JEnvR

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

increase in birth defects" or a "clear indication of a possible environmental exposure including depleted uranium". The article further states that "there is

with war — Agent Orange • Depleted uranium • Military Superfund site (Category only) • Scorched earth • War and environmental law • Unexploded ordnance

radioactive materials (depleted uranium, irradiated fuel, uranium from reprocessing, plutonium reusable in MOX fuel, MOX, etc.). The release of liquid and gaseous

of depleted uranium from the training sites used for the Davy Crockett's inert rounds to be practice fired. They said that 12,405 acres (5,020 ha) of

or Th-232 to U-233). Thus, a uranium breeder reactor, once running, can be refueled with natural or even depleted uranium, and a thorium breeder reactor