JUST FOR THE RECORD: Amygdala has pointed this out in a million places, but we think not here.

"Depleted uranium" is no more significantly radioactive than lead, steel, wood, or the human body. It is 60% less radioactive than naturally found Uranium-238. That's why it's bloody depleted.

It is a dangerous substance because uranium is chemically toxic. Just like, you know, lead is. In neither case is there any danger whatsoever from radiation.

See, say, here or here or here or here. And a fictionalized king might say: etc., etc., etc.

Amygdala mentions this because we're Rilly Rilly Tired of seeing people who should know better talk and write about the "dangers of radioactivity" from depleted uranium.

See, say, here, a reprint from the Seattle Times:

"How can the Navy fire depleted-uranium rounds and spread radioactive material into prime fishing areas off our coast?" asked Dave Mann, a Seattle environmental attorney.

[...]

In 1999, Canadian fishermen were outraged to learn the Canadian navy had left several tons of depleted uranium on the ocean floor off the coast of Nova Scotia. The radioactive rounds were fired from ships with Phalanx weapons systems.

Talk about it being bloody chemically toxic, and know what you're talking about!

Please? For the children, and otherwise, the terrorists will have won.

Read The Rest Scale: please read some of the links on depleted uranium so you never look like a fool by referring to it as "radioactive." (It is, in the precise sense that every element in the Periodic Table is "radioactive"... to some degree.)