Depleted Uranium Spiked With Plutonium, Etc.

The fission products below—created inside nuclear reactors—are now known to be mixed with the uranium-238 used in depleted uranium munitions. Three hundred and twenty tons of DU were shot into Iraq and Kuwait in the 1991 bombardment; three tons into Bosnia in 1995; and 10 tons into Kosovo in 1999. Of the roughly 720,000 tons of DU available to U.S. weapons merchants, some 250,000 tons is now known to be spiked with these and other extremely radioactive, toxic and long-lived isotopes.

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