Comments by "OpenGL4ever" (@OpenGL4ever) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

This is definitely a fake and i will explain it to you and give you the reason. Depleted uranium was never used in a reactor, it is the residue that occurs when natural uranium is enriched. Natural uranium consists mainly of the two isotopes Uranium 238 and Uranium 235. The percentage share is 99,27 % Uranium 238 and 0,72 % Uranium 235. The latter one is fissile and thus the valuable uranium. For usage in a reactor its percentage share is enriched to about 4 % and to about over 90 % for nuclear weapons. And if you enrich an isotope, then you have more of the unusable uranium 238 on the waste side. That's why this waste is also called depleted uranium. But both uranium isotopes are radioactive. The half-life of both is so long that it practically doesn't matter which one you have more of. And since both are alpha emitters, the radiation does not penetrate the skin. Uranium can only cause damage if you inhale dust into your lungs or if the uranium enters the body in another way. This can happen, for example, if the tank is hit. But it doesn't matter at all how high the degree of depletion is. If you really take it seriously, the half-life of uranium 235 is slightly shorter. This means that a certain amount of material has more decays per unit of time, but because the half-life is still huge, there are so few decays that it practically doesn't matter. So if you want to completely protect yourself from uranium radiation, then you shouldn't put it in a tank at all. It doesn’t matter whether it is natural uranium or depleted uranium and how depleted it is, it is still radioactive uranium.
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@Schimml0rd Eyes are transparent for visible light, not for alpha rays. And yes, alpha rays will go through open orifices, but that isn't a problem. You still have skin in your ear and nose and tongue. And your teeth will block alpha rays too. Also these orifices are rather small. So this is not a problem. And if it were, you could still wear a respirator.
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@MyLateralThawts I didn't say that. I was referring to your two sentences: "but that Soviet depleted uranium wasn’t completely depleted. He suggested that any soldiers that served on them were likely to have several times the safe exposure levels to radiation that most people would experience" And I explained that by using science. That's why this story is a fairy tale story. Destroyed by science. A hit creates dust and, in the case of armor with depleted uranium, radioactive uranium dust, which can if inhaled cause great damage to the body due to alpha radiation. Whether the uranium is depleted, natural uranium or enriched makes practically no big difference. And that is also the reason why we in Germany do not use depleted uranium in our Leopard 2 or use such ammunition.
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