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BWright79 t1_j5szyag wrote

The United States creates munitions from spent nuclear rods and our military uses it overseas. It’s much cheaper than shooting it into space!

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atwegotsidetrekked t1_j5t31re wrote

They stopped doing that because of gulf war syndrome

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BWright79 t1_j5vde8s wrote

> munitions from spent nuclear rods

Where did you read that? I'm fairly certain that depleted uranium is still used to make bullets and mortar shells.

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atwegotsidetrekked t1_j5ve6k9 wrote

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2307521-us-arms-maker-ends-production-of-controversial-depleted-uranium-rounds/

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BWright79 t1_j5wr38l wrote

Thanks, that's good news. Before I responded earlier I was seeing articles as recent as 2022 saying we did this. Granted this article is also from 2022... in my head though I can't help but think how we still use soviet era munitions and even though production as stopped... we are probably still using them.

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