Comments by "DLWELD" (@DLWELD) on "Depleted uranium to Ukraine. Putin, Russia forced to react. Lavrov, this will end badly for UK. U/1" video.

  1. While U238 itself isn't madly radioactive - its "daughter" products - the elements produced when it decays (including polonium218, Radium226, lead214 etc.) are more radioactive and dangerous. A long lasting poisoning of an area.
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  2. "likely to be low" - yep, there's that official guessing again from that official spokesman
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  3.  @stephendgreen1502  we don't worry about ore deposits because the ore isn't on our land, in our food, or in our air. DU is. While U238 itself isn't madly radioactive - its "daughter" products - the elements produced when it decays (including polonium218, Radium226, lead214 etc.) are more radioactive and dangerous. A long lasting poisoning of an area.
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  4. Alpha particles if emitted inside the body (from ingested or breathed in particulates) do the main damage to DNA. Plus the U238 has a whole list of very radioactive daughter products including radium - not good inside...
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  5. UK is into poisoning the land one of the world's major grain suppliers. Gad!
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  6. If you put a piece of pitchblende (uranium ore) in a cloud chamber it pretty well saturates it - so many radioactive emissions - spectacular - due to the daughter products of the uranium accumulated in the ore. That's the danger, plus the uranium is vapourized when used in a shell - the small size of the particles mean they are NOT excreted from the body - just like the nano particles from diesel.
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  7. Gold is denser than Uranium - not a bad idea to use it instead. Except for the way Uranium behaves in a shell - it sort of "self-lubricates" its way through steel, thus much favoured, despite its poisoning effects.
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  8. At the end old Mr. H. ordered the destruction of all German industry - burn the place down. Albert Speer managed to thwart that order.
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  9. Where's Tennyson when you need him
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  10. Now it waives the rules.
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  11. Well, no more Russian uranium exports to the West (including France), and China pulls out of Hinckley Point reactor construction.
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  12.  @KennethITGuru  LOL very very few actually elected leaders in the West
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  13. Seems another self-goal by the West - a few Uranium rounds to maybe get 2, 3 tanks - meanwhile the world-wide propaganda loss is huge. The West seems to be losing the larger political and economic wars, the wars that really matter, and doesn't even know it.
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  14. Gold is denser than Uranium - not a bad idea to use it in shells instead. Except for the way Uranium behaves in a shell - it sort of "self-lubricates" its way through steel, thus much favoured, despite its poisoning effects.
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  15. While U238 itself isn't madly radioactive - its "daughter" products - the elements produced when it decays (including polonium218, Radium226, lead214 etc.) are more radioactive and dangerous. A long lasting poisoning of an area.
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  16. It and its daughter products are long term radioactive - it's like a dirty bomb.
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  17.  @jaemate21  While U238 itself isn't madly radioactive - its "daughter" products - the elements produced when it decays (including polonium218, Radium226, lead214 etc.) are more radioactive and dangerous. A long lasting poisoning of an area.
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  18. It's not a fission bomb - it's radioactive poisoning - like a dirty bomb.
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  19. Well, no more Russian uranium exports to the West, and China pulls out of Hinckley Point reactor construction.
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