A company aiming to open the world's first commercial laser uranium enrichment plant in western Kentucky took a key step over ...

The US Air Force proposes to “divest” itself of 162 A-10 Warthog aircraft by 2026 and send them to the boneyard at Davis ...

Reaching Iran's most fortified nuclear enrichment site is a challenge, even for the world's biggest conventional weapons.

The testing of armor-piercing depleted uranium (DU) “penetrators” has resulted in the deposition of DU in the sediments of the Solway Firth, UK. In this study, DU-amended, microcosm experiments ...

Depleted uranium (DU) is the main by-product of uranium enrichment and is a chemically and radiologically toxic heavy metal; it is mildly radioactive, with about 60% of the activity of natural uranium ...

After the removal of the active isotope, this metal becomes less radioactive than natural uranium and its ore and has 40% less radiation. The main military application of depleted uranium is ...

It is not clear whether Russia uses depleted uranium shells itself, though the state news agency Tass reported in 2018 that a modernized version of its main battle tank had the capacity to fire them.

3VBM21 Svinets-1 with the 3BM59 depleted uranium dart / Archive photo Works on russian depleted uranium shells started back in the USSR, in the 1970s or 1980s. The first of the series was the 3VBM13 ...

Depleted uranium rounds, like the tanks that will fire them, are part of Ukraine’s growing arsenal to repel the Russian forces that have invaded the country since February 2022.

As a part of a $1 billion aid package, the United States announced this week that it is sending depleted anti-tank munitions to Ukraine to help Zelensky’s troops fend off Russian tanks. The ...

The 120mm anti-tank shells made of depleted uranium are self-sharpening and flammable penetrator in munitions. They are made of naturally occurring Uranium which has been stripped of mostly ...