"Depleted Uranium munitions are made from enriched uranium fuel rods that have been used up (i.e. depleted)."


NOT GENERALLY TRUE.

Depleted Uranium, as used for munitions and numerous commercial products, is naturally occuring uranium from which the more radioactive isotopes have been removed, resulting in a less radioactive material than naturally occuring ores.

The enriched uranium that is used to make fuel rods is the material that is TAKEN OUT OF the ores, leaving the residual DU material.

The material remaining at end-of-usefullness for fuel rods may be called "spent uranium" if you wish, but depleted uranium is NOT generally material that has ever seen the inside of a reactor.

John