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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]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 > -- > ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- > Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, > ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero > W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, > "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments. > > >