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Post by KristallNacht Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:31 am



What do you say to this?
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Post by Ruski Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:19 am

I wouldn't say its a WMD per say, but once it starts effecting a population that has nothing to do with the conflict other than living in the area, then there's something wrong happening. Especially when you are trying to make the population friendly towards you for the most part.

Also, I think maybe expanding the poll choices to include other possible points might do the poll more justice?

Just my $0.02.
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Post by KristallNacht Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:42 am

have a recommendation?
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Post by CivBase Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:34 pm

I say there's only one thing we can do...

More nukes.
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Post by Ruski Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:23 pm

KristallNacht wrote:have a recommendation?

I personally can't think of one, unfortunately.
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Post by laxspartan007 Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:57 pm

i think the narrator sounds like a computer
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Post by KrAzY Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:37 pm

no worries Ruski, I got your back
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Post by Rasq'uire'laskar Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:20 pm

Only thing I have to say is...

Why are we using depleted uranium against soft targets? That's complete overkill.
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Post by Rotaretilbo Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:20 pm

I'm with Rasq. Depleted uranium rounds are for taking out armored targets.
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Post by Dud Doodoo Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:25 pm

But they also give the many DU equipped mounted guns the ability to penetrate any cover, and could possibly be used by the abrams for this reason as well. DU is also used by many combat support aircraft to provide more effective air support, and is a key armor layer of all recent abrams tanks.

What do we have to suggest that depleted uranium is what caused the birth defects though? Are there figures that show it is increasing? I'm sure it isn't the only possible cause...

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Post by KristallNacht Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:57 pm

well, the huts and shit in afghan and Iraq are actually pretty strong. You'd be surprised.

Well, dud, that was the main thing I was getting at. The story is sensationalist. Despite what a lot of people seem to think without doing research, DU hasn't shown any actual health risk to anyone aside from who the weapons were meant to kill in the first place.
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Post by Lord Pheonix Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:02 pm



Warning: Being shot with Depleted Uranium has been shown to have the side effects of holes in abdomen, holes in chest, holes in arms, legs, feet, hands, and heads. Also shown are increased blood loss, impartial vision, sudden pain(in affected area), and death. Also Cancer.
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Post by Gauz Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:25 pm

Oh, in case you get shot by that depleted uranium, here's some advice tha lab-boys gave me:
[paper rustling]
do not get shot by the depleted uranium!
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Post by KristallNacht Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:43 pm

whats funny is how much focus is put on DU being 'radioactive' when by most counts, it's not really all that radioactive at all. The real is its toxicity but even that requires direct application.
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Post by Lord Pheonix Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:57 pm

I think they should worry about the thousands of landmines around the country before worry about spent ammo that MAY make their shit swim weird.



Doesn't matter how your kids come out if they step on a mine at 4.
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Post by Ringleader Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:10 pm

Just make bullets out of tungsten carbide, or something else that's not as toxic.
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Post by KristallNacht Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:07 am

But also more expensive and less abundant
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Post by Ringleader Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:27 am

The atomic constituents of Tungsten Carbide are significantly cheaper and more abundant in Earth's crust:

http://www.chemicool.com/elements/uranium.html
http://www.chemicool.com/elements/tungsten.html

Even so, I find it hard to imagine there are no other viable alternatives. It's not like our current enemies pose enough of a threat or challenge for us to NEED to use DU, considering how many other options there are.
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Post by KristallNacht Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:20 am

That doesn't take into account we already have depleted uranium from the fact we have nuclear power. So the essential cost of the DU as a raw material is null.

And your own links say uranium is more abundant lol but the core idea is we are going to have DU in our industry no matter what. Might as well use it.
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Post by CivBase Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:40 am

What if we build more nukes... and then nuke the deposits of depleted uranium? That should fix it.
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Post by KristallNacht Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:11 am

Yes.....that sounds about right.....
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Post by Ringleader Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:34 am

KristallNacht wrote:That doesn't take into account we already have depleted uranium from the fact we have nuclear power. So the essential cost of the DU as a raw material is null.

And your own links say uranium is more abundant lol but the core idea is we are going to have DU in our industry no matter what. Might as well use it.

Uranium is more abundant than Tungsten itself, but Tungsten Carbide is half W, half C, so in total, no. Even with Tungsten, it's easier to extract, and it's only slightly less abundant than Uranium, hence the price differential. Diamond is vastly more expensive than both, yet carbon is significantly more abundant than either for the same reason.




So, we have nuclear waste just lying around, so use it for bullets? There are other uses for DU, you know. I don't see why you would contest the use of alternatives so much, Tungsten Carbide IS cheaper than DU, and that's just ONE material you could use instead. The price of raw materials isn't null just because it's the by product of a chemical reaction.


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Post by KristallNacht Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:01 am

Depleted uranium isn't waste. Its the significantly less radioactive bits of uranium. The radioactive bits are enriched uranium. So uranium costs money, then enriched goes to bombs and power plants and then the depleted is just there....its essential cost is null because its going to be stockpiled whether we are using it or not. The tungsten carbide would require MORE mining and production.

As far as I'm aware no uranium is enriched so that we can have DU so the production of DU is more than it is being used.
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Post by Ringleader Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:27 am

Ehh, I don't think so.

DU is classified as being nuclear waste, while also being classified as significantly less radioactive bits of uranium. It can be both at the same time.

Again, there are other uses for it, but it very well may be the case that DU becomes obsolete by newer materials, and the best course of action might be to just keep it stockpiled in caves or mine pits. Kinda like, other byproducts of nuclear enrichment.

Build more mines and factories? Well, why the hell not, more industry, more flexible industry too, given that there are more uses for WC than DU. I doubt the production of tank shells and yacht keels out of WC would put that much more of a strain on the WC industry than it's current uses.

Oh, but what's this? WC was already used as ammunition to great effect:
Tungsten carbide is often used in armor-piercing ammunition, especially where depleted uranium is not available or is politically unacceptable. W2C projectiles were first used by German Luftwaffe tank-hunter squadrons in World War II. Owing to the limited German reserves of tungsten, W2C material was reserved for making machine tools and small numbers of projectiles. It is an effective penetrator due to its combination of great hardness and very high density.[19][20]

Tungsten carbide ammunition can be of the sabot type (a large arrow surrounded by a discarding push cylinder) or a subcaliber ammunition, where copper or other relatively soft material is used to encase the hard penetrating core, the two parts being separated only on impact. The latter is more common in small-caliber arms, while sabots are usually reserved for artillery use.[21][22]
It's even used as a neutron deflector in nuclear bombs.





There are always other options too, WC is not the end-all of alternatives to DU, it's just a particularly good one.

To your second point:
The main by-product of enrichment is depleted uranium (DU), principally the U-238 isotope, with a U-235 content of ~0.3%. It is stored, either as UF6 or as U3O8. Some is used in applications where its extremely high density makes it valuable, such as the keels of yachts, and anti-tank shells.[10] It is also used with plutonium for making mixed oxide fuel (MOX) and to dilute, or downblend, highly enriched uranium from weapons stockpiles which is now being redirected to become reactor fuel.
So, no, Uranium IS enriched so that we can have DU.
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Post by KristallNacht Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:56 am

So how about DU is used for what it is and tungsten is used for everything else
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