Uranium from which most of the fissile isotope uranium-235 has been removed.
Example sentencesExamples
- These numbers are compounded by the use of depleted uranium during the war, made out of nuclear waste and used in bombs and bullets.
- The problem with depleted uranium is the fact that it is radioactive.
- Radioactive depleted uranium has a half-life of 4500 million years.
- It also seems that they are having trouble differentiating between depleted uranium and enriched uranium.
- Weapons coated with depleted uranium leave a radioactive toxic dust behind.