teddy_m@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine
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1 year agoEveryone should worry. Depleted uranium will contaminate large crop production areas and later these grains will be sold all around the world. Everybody will eat some.
Depleted means that the radioactive isotope is lower in concentration. It still is somehow radioactive (it’s almost fine if not ingested) and still remains a heavy and toxic metal.