Depleted uranium is, well, depleted. It's U238 and so it's just heavy abundant shit. Perfect to give ruzzia orcs their daily last meal. I wouldn't sleep with one of those things as a pillow but otherwise there's nothing to worry about. Uranium is literally everywhere in minute amounts in the dirt so just keep those things a few feet away and you'll be fine.
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It's only a hazard if you are handling it all the time, or you hang out around old targets where there is a fuck ton of uranium dust just waiting to get stirred up. If it gets in your lungs, you are not going to be a happy camper after a few years. Even so, depleted uranium emits alpha particles which is the weakest form of radiation.
I don't deny the fact that uranium dust is bad. The reasons why it is bad are usually left out of the all the articles that hate on it for the wrong reasons.
Hell, here in Colorado we have more issues with radon. As far as uranium is concerned, there are problems with rainwater runoff concentrating it from the old mines that we have, but that is about it. Of course that isn't good, but it takes massive tailings piles from old mines to cause issues for groundwater and such.
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