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The depleted uranium alloy of the M1 has been described as "arranged in a type of armour matrix" [20] and a single module as a "stainless-steel shell surrounding a layer (probably an inch or two thick) of depleted uranium, woven into a wire-mesh blanket". [21] Such modules are also used by tanks not equipped with Chobham armour.
Natural uranium contains about 0.72% 235 U. Depleted uranium has lower mass fractions—up to three times less—of 235 U and 234 U than natural uranium. Since 238 U has a much longer half-life than the lighter isotopes, DU is about 40% less radioactive than natural uranium.
The "special nuclear materials" are also plutonium-239, uranium-233, and enriched uranium (U-235). Note that the 1980 Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material definition of nuclear material does not include thorium. [4] The NRC has a regulatory process for nuclear materials with five main components. [5]
When fired, depleted uranium becomes ‘essentially an exotic metal dart fired at extraordinarily high speed’
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Because of its high density, depleted uranium (DU) can also be used in tank armour, sandwiched between sheets of steel armour plate. For instance, some late-production M1A1HA and M1A2 Abrams tanks built after 1998 have DU reinforcement as part of the armour plating in the front of the hull and the front of the turret, and there is a program to ...
M1 Abrams Block III Tank Test Bed (M1 TTB) was a prototype built in 1983 as part of TACOM's Abrams Block III program (whose purview was to eventually create the M1A3), featuring an unmanned turret with a 44-caliber 120 mm M256 smoothbore gun, three crew members sitting side by side inside an armored capsule at the front of the hull and a suite ...
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