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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Subject: Re: Depleted uranium
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- -From: vulch@kernow.demon.co.uk (Anthony Frost)
- -Subject: Re: Breeder reactors
- -Date: 23 Dec 92 00:14:34 GMT
- -Organization: VCS Kernow
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- - >> cost? (For that matter, how much does U235-depleted uranium
- - >> cost?)
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- - > I'd think it should be free to anyone wanting to haul it
- - > away (though the governement probably doesn't treat it that
- - > way).
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- -I believe a fair quantity of it gets used in munitions. A depleted uranium
- -slug coming out of some form of gun goes through armour plating quite
- -nicely. Apparently, along with the bits that go bang, kids in Kuwait are
- -encouraged not to pick up any they see round the desert due to slight
- -residual radioactivity!
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- The antimissile Phalanx guns on warships use uranium slugs. I don't know
- about other weapons.
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- I believe depleted uranium is also used as ballast in commercial aircraft.
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- John Roberts
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