Depleted Uranium is completely different from natural uranium.

Len A. Dietz:

"Except for uranium mines, Natural Uranium always occurs in
highly dilute concentration, approximately 1-ppm in soils.

It is locked up in non-metallic form in minerals and is not readily
available for chemical action in the body or in the environment.
On the other hand, Depleted Uranium always appears in highly
concentrated chemical form, usually as uranium oxides or metal, and is
available for immediate chemical action in the body or in the environment.
In your samples (samples from the dust of the EL-AL Boeing) it appears
as oxidized uranium aerosol particles that can easily
become resuspended in air and inhaled.
Potentially this is very dangerous".
Len Dietz

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