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Depleted uranium (2): deployment and theories on the dangerous features of the DU

Rome, Italy - It is usually used to produce extremely resistant bullets but clashing theories exist about its radioactivity

Uranium 238 DU: this is the full name of the so called depleted uranium, a rejected product stemming from the uranium enrichment process itself, extremely resistant so that it is even by far preferred compared with lead for the production of bullets destinated to cannons employed against particularly heavy armoured targets. An its cost would be quite low. Theories about the dangerous features of the...

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Rome, Italy, 09/24/2004 20:07
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