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[–] bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Your explanation makes sense to me (a very non-physicist), but I remember more than one journalism piece from a decade or so ago about uncharacteristically high rates of cancer in areas in Afghanistan or Iraq that were basically carpeted with US depleted-uranium bullets. Do you think that's a fluke? Is it possible there is poor quality control in manufacturing the bullets, resulting in some stuff with shorter half-life in there? Could the cancer rates be due to the heavy-metal properties?

(Of course it's a correlation/causation thing, so there could be other causes, too, but I'm interested in what you think of this)

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 11 hours ago

Probably from the chemical properties; very unlikely from radiation.

Reading through this. There are plenty of carcinogenic chemicals such as arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt...