Like the fact that it has been used in airplanes for years.
Yes, it is used as ballast to balance planes! Why is it used in planes you ask? Because it is very dense, and safe. Two things that are very important considerations for planes, a good amount of weight to balance the plane, with minimal volume having to be wasted. (planes have a shortage of volume, you know.)
Or that it is EXTREMELY safe!
After all, Uranium ore is very safe by itself, then, once depleted the VERY SMALL amount of radiation it has is even less than this very safe amount. You get more radiation from the sun than you could ever get from living in a house made out of the stuff. In fact, a comparison has been made that you would get far more radiation from the radioactive potassium within your body, or your spouse's body than you would get from carrying around non-depleted Uranium much less depleted uranium.
Uranium occurs naturally in the environment and therefore also in the human body. In the Netherlands, the concentration of uranium in the soil varies between 0.4 and 8 milligrams per kg of dry earth. Intake of uranium by humans principally occurs via the diet.
Yep, you eat some everyday! And a much larger amount than you would be exposed to by DU shells in a war zone!
www.web-light.nl/VISIE/gezondheidsraad-du-1.html Notice the title, DU is exposed as a scientific fraud!
Depleted Uranium is used because it is so dense. Would you rather get shot by a feather, a piece of wood, a piece of lead, or a very heavy piece of DU?---a feather wouldn't even make it to you, the wood would hurt, the lead and DU would do major damage. Why? Denseness! The more dense something is, the more penetrating ability it has. People are very soft, but some other things are not!
Now, if you were in a tank (something hard), which is the only one you wouldn't want to be shot by?--Yep, the dense one (no, not you silly 
), the DU!
DU is used because its denseness allows for penetration of hard objects! This is the only reason it is used, (and armor since it is much harder to penetrate DU armor than steel) because it is much better for shooting at armored objects than less dense materials. It is basically just an armored bullet.---as for the dust, the dust coming up from the ground on impact of any ballistic weapon is far more dangerous than any dust from DU is. Due to it's denseness and hardness, DU wouldn't turn to dust nearly as readily as softer, less dense materials, and with the radioactive part removed, there is no reason for it to dangerous.
Is it totally safe? No, but then what is? In amounts that are too high, water is toxic, oxygen it toxic, all heavy metals are toxic, and DU is toxic, but no more toxic than having too much iron in your blood! It's toxicity is because it is a heavy metal, not because it is radioactive!
Uranium, radiation, nuclear are simply words that alarmist like to use to scare the public, because the general public has been taught to fear them.
Another interesting fact.--If you live at sea level and then move to Denver, you will receive more radiation than you would if you were inside three mile island during it's "meltdown"! How can this be? Denver has less atmosphere to protect it from cosmic radiation. Do you want to move to Death Valley now, since they are lower in elevation, so there is less radiation?
There have been some pretty ridiculous claims about DU. Due to the average person's fear and misunderstanding of anything "nucler", "Uranium", etc., a lot of people buy into this fraud, but when you look into it, DU is very safe--unless someone shoots you with it, and then it is no worse than a regular bullet!
Rodney
