CDR: RE: request for info about DU

[Lucky Green]

A more interesting question might be: where does one get depleted uranium. I
looked, but found no useful information on the Net. Surely there can't be
much restrictions on this stuff.

[The even more interesting question of course is where to obtain enriched
uranium}.

--Lucky Green <shamrock at cypherpunks.to>

  "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law".
   Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in
   a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cypherpunks at openpgp.net [mailto:cypherpunks at openpgp.net]On Behalf
> Of Tim May
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 12:10
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: request for info about DU
>
>
> At 6:27 PM +0100 10/10/00, Hansen Linn wrote:
> >I am a journalist student who need some basic info about
> Depleted Uranium.
> >Why and how has it depleted???? Do u have any usefull links were
> I can find
> >this info??
> >
>
> There will be vast numbers of Web pages available. Use search engines.
>
> I worked a lot with depleted uranium in a past career. It's natural
> uranium from which the U-235 isotope has been removed, leaving the
> U-238 isotope. Inasmuch as U-238 is the bulk of naturally occurring
> uranium, DU is not very different from ordinary uranium as mined and
> processed into the metallic form.
>
> Though mildly radioactive (half-life of billions of years...4.5
> billion, IIRC), its very high density makes it ideal for sailboat
> keels, cores of anti-tank and anti-ship shells, etc. (When used in a
> weapon, the DU adds to the penetration, and also ignites and
> burns...this has nothing whatsoever to do with its radioactivity,
> though.)
>
> Again, consult online sources, or encyclopedias.
>
> And if you asked on the Cypherpunks list because you thought it would
> be cute to implicate us in nuclear weapons chatter, get a clue. If
> not, it was still the wrong place to ask such a question.
>
>
> --Tim May
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