If the half life of Uranium is 200,000 years how do they get Depleted Uranium?

My Guess:- use it in your friendly neighbourhood nuclear power generating reactor. Instead of dealing with the chain reaction depleted waste still with a significant half-life as you mention, throw it at your fellow human beings and your own soldiers as deliberate genocide. Who are these traitors to humankind?

So many 'tards, so little time...

You know how they make hot dogs out of the bits of scraps left over at the local meat processing plant?

It's kind of like that, only from the local uranium processing plant.

Earth has been through one half life of U238, and a number of half lives of U235. That's why you can hold uranium glass in your hand and not die, uranium isn't all that radioactive.

just think lips and assholes...nom nom

Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural uranium.[2] (Natural uranium is about 99.27% U-238, 0.72% U-235—the fissile isotope, and 0.0055% U-234).

Natural uranium metal contains about 0.71% U-235, 99.28% U-238, and about 0.0054% U-234. In order to produce enriched uranium, the process of isotope separation removes a substantial portion of the U-235 for use in nuclear power, weapons, or other uses. The remainder, depleted uranium, contains only 0.2% to 0.4% U-235. Because natural uranium begins with such a low percentage of U-235, enrichment produces large quantities of depleted uranium. For example, producing 1 kg of 5% enriched uranium requires 11.8 kg of natural uranium, and leaves about 10.8 kg of depleted uranium with only 0.3% U-235 remaining.

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You would have looked way more awesome without the Wiki link. Just sayin'.

it's still the most informative post on the thread!!

Why do you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?

Nuclear particle bombardment! There is the key to reducing all nuclear waste half-lives to zero.

So many questions are asked on forums when a Google search would have given the answer.

By linking to a forum where somebody has asked the question?

Carbon dating is bullshit, they know it, but won't admit to it.

Rather, the idea of half life shit is shitty shit.