Whatever its radioactivity, it is also a heavy metal -- who would want to breathe in (for example) a large amount of lead dust! Heavy metals are toxic.
Carrol Daniel Davies wrote: > > I reiterate as the son of physicist and as someone who spent his boyhood > situated between two of the UK's largest nuclear power plants, that there is > no such damn thing as "depleted" uranium and anyone who knows anything about > the half-life of uranium must inwardly laugh when they hear the phrase. ....
