Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "BOMBSHELL: ISRAEĻ USES DEPLETED URANÍUM IN LEBANOŅ; IÐF OCCUPIES SOUTH LEBANOŅ;" video.

  1. ENGINEER HERE: So we are all clear. Depleted Uranium is NOT produced from spent fuel its a by-product of the enrichment process. Natural Uranium is approximately 99.3% U238 and 0.7% U235 or about 7 grams per kilogram. Commercial grade nuclear fuel rods start at between 3 and 8% and to get to that higher concentration its enriched. What enrichment does is split the raw uranium into 2 parts, one with a higher concentration of U235 and one with a lower concentration of U235. For example If you take a kilogram of natural Uranium it would have 7 grams of U235. If you split that into 1 part with a mass of 120grams but has 6 of the 7 grams of U235 that 120grams has a U235 percentage of 5%. That's fuel grade and can go into a reactor. The other part with a mass of 880 grams with the last 1g of U235, would have a U235 percentage of 0.11% which is down from the original 0.7%. That's why its called depleted Uranium. which is down form 0.7% and that's why its called depleted uranium. Its been depleted of U235. U238 does not have many uses. Its very good for radiation shielding because of its density and can be used to make glass (see Wikipedia). However U238 is fantastic for making armour piecing bullets because when the bullet hits the armour it doesn't simply smash into the armour it literally explodes in an exothermic (heat generating) reaction that literally burns through the armour. Even if it does not go right through the armour it can generate enough heat so that the armour on the inside of the vehicle melts and spray around. So depleted Uranium rounds are fairly horrendous things.
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  2.  @ilyakuryakin4639  You're half right. Yes Plutonium comes transmutation of U238 but that happens in breeder reactors which are specifically built and run to get the neutrons at the right energy level to get them to combine with 238. There's no need to use depleted Uranium when over 90% of the fuel pellets in the fuel rods us U238. There's a few good videos explaining that. If you or anyone else wants to watch really good people who know the subject of nuclear. YT channel - Illinois EnergyProf hosted by Prof David Ruzic YT channel - Elina Charatsidou who's a nuclear physicist In terms of being balanced they are the 2 best I know. I'm certain there's other good people out there but there's also a lot of bias and there's also way too much opinion from clowns being peddled as facts. Yeah I know who Terra Power is and that Bill Gates is funding them. They don't yet have any approvals for their reactor so all they are building right now is the surrounding infrastructure. So I sort of expect they'll succeed because they have the money to get there. How successful they'll be is the question.
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