Chapter 189: S400 air defense missile and YJ-18 anti-ship missile

People extract uranium-containing ore from the natural world, and through steps such as crushing, leaching, and precipitation, extract uranium ore concentrate, which is "yellowcake".

Then, the yellowcake is heated and reduced to uranium trioxide, and then reacted with hydrofluoric acid to generate uranium hexafluoride, which is a volatile solid.

Next, it is separated into enriched uranium and depleted uranium.

Enriched uranium contains a higher proportion of uranium-235 and can be used to manufacture nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons,

depleted uranium contains a lower proportion of uranium-235, with weaker radioactivity but higher density.

Finally, depleted uranium is converted into metallic uranium or alloys, and then through forging, machining, and other processes, made into depleted uranium warheads.

Although depleted uranium has much lower radioactivity than enriched uranium, it still has certain radioactivity and chemical toxicity.

When a depleted uranium bomb hits a target, it generates high temperature and high pressure, causing the warhead to melt and splash into tiny particles, forming depleted uranium aerosol.

These aerosols will spread with the wind direction into the surrounding air, water sources, and soil, causing long-term harm to living organisms.

Depleted uranium aerosol can enter the human body through breathing, food, or skin, causing damage to the lungs, liver, kidneys, bones, brain, and other organs of the human body.

Depleted uranium also destroys the human immune system and genetic material, leading to cancer, deformity, miscarriage, and other serious consequences.

In the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Ugly Nation military used about 300 tons of depleted uranium bombs.

After the war, the incidence of leukemia and deformed children in Iraq increased significantly.

Even the Ugly Nation soldiers themselves appeared with many mysterious diseases,

known as "Gulf War Syndrome".

And in the 1999 war against Kosovo, NATO used about 30,000 depleted uranium bombs.

After the war, the cancer mortality rate in Kosovo and the Balkan region also increased significantly.

In the 2003 Iraq War, the Ugly Nation military used about 1000 tons of depleted uranium bombs again.

After the war, the number of cancer patients in the southern Iraqi city of Basra increased by 10 times.