{"id":11,"date":"2021-08-31T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:32:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:32:53","slug":"depleted-uranium-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Depleted Uranium Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>What is uranium?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Uranium (U) is the silver-white, dense, lustrous, and mildly radioactive metallic element which is present in nature and found in very minute amounts in soils, rocks, air, animals, plants and in human beings. &nbsp;<\/li><li>The uranium that exists in nature is a mix of 3 radioactive isotopes that are identified with mass numbers 235U (0.72% by mass), 234U (0.0054%) and 238U (99.27%).&nbsp;<\/li><li>An estimated 90 \u00b5g of uranium is found in humans. This is found in food, water and air. 66% of uranium is found in human skeleton, 8% in kidneys and 16% in liver. The rest are found in all other tissues.<\/li><li>This metallic element is used in nuclear plants but majority of the reactors need uranium with 235U content, enriched from 0.72% to 1.5 to 3%.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is uranium? Uranium (U) is the silver-white, dense, lustrous, and mildly radioactive metallic element which is present in nature and found in very minute amounts in soils, rocks, air, animals, plants and in human beings. &nbsp; The uranium that exists in nature is a mix of 3 radioactive isotopes that are identified with mass numbers 235U (0.72% by mass), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}