Eli5 why can’t radioactive waste be used again? Why is it waste?
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THey tried, the US was using ‘spent uranium’ munitions in the Kuwait and Iraq wars. It was supposed to be inert by the time it got processed into anti-tank rounds.
I made a hell of armor killer. You know how a lead weight is so much heavier than a same sized chunk of aluminum, well uranium is so much heavier than lead. I mean they call those atoms “heavy metals” for a reason.
It was also malable like gold, and when this compact spear of very heavy metal hit a tank it turned molten as it punched through and anyone side burned as they were shredded.
anyway more GIs got sick from mysterious ailments associated with uranium ammo and whatever waste was pitched into the burn pits.
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