SBU found a Russian Shahed wreckage showing radiation levels at 12 microsieverts per hour, linked to an R-60M depleted uranium warhead.
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12 uSv/hr is nothing really, depleted uranium is just a dense metal used to penetrate metal armour
Old watches, aircraft cockpit gauges and even old red painted dinner plates have this level or more radiation
If you you hugged it tightly against your body for a minute you’re recieve the same huge radation dose as you’d get from eating two whole bananas!
Now there’s an image i can work with
How much radiation would I get if I ate two bananas worth of depleted uranium?
No idea, but you’d definitely die of heavy metal poisoning!
Banana for scale.
the dust from bullets when inhaled is extremely toxic.
Yeah same as the radium watch paint and uranium plate glaze
Alpha radiation is the primary emission, blocked easily by skin but harmful if consumed