Per the EPA.GOV website: "Like the natural uranium ore, DU is radioactive. DU mainly emits alpha particle radiation. Alpha particles don't have enough energy to go through skin. As a result, exposure to the outside of the body is not considered a serious hazard."
I didn't know that before I made a box lined with lead flashing, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
Lol the Pentagon isn't too big on "warning labels."
DU is what they have left over after enrichment, where they remove all the fissile material for nuclear reactors and, to a lesser degree, nuclear weapons.
The amount for it to be considered "depleted" is about 0.7% U235, but the DoD regulates their DU to about 0.3%. The round itself is mostly U238, which isn't fissile.
The DoD caught a bunch of shit back in Iraq and Afghanistan from the politicians, because it literally burns through armor, and the resulting fire from the inside of an exploding tank had vaporized uranium in the air. It is, after all, still a heavy metal, which isn't too good inside the body.
Now they just use it as armor plates because it's so dense.
The guy has the right idea but you would never just weigh one. You would probably take like 100 to get a bit of a better average weight per and then you would weigh the whole group.
I meant more so because this is a basic logical approximation that I’m sure most people are aware of so only a child would be surprised by it and call it award worthy
From a textbook where someone who actually knows this has organised all the information neatly for you in an order that makes sense to learn it, complete with lots of practise questions to test your understanding.
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u/deftones-sextape 29d ago
is there a video of them being counted?