To be physically effective, no, you would not use uranium.
To be effective as a weapon of terrorism? It doesn’t matter.
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FYI That article credits the Sun:
It was discovered on 29 December on a passenger flight that arrived from Oman, according to the Sun.
This story makes no sense. It may have happened, yes, but the why is probably unknowable.
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On commercial use - there (at least in the early naughts) was a surplus of DU, regardless of how much we generously “donated” to far off battlegrounds. “A guy I might know” just maybe was involved in hitting up a very famous sailboat team captain in San Diego during a metallurgy conference to possibly hook him up with some very fine and hydronamic keel weight/ballast. Nothing came of it though.
It’s hella cheaper than Ta or W though, all three of which I’ve used quite a bit of. Both, at ~17 Mg/m^3 are similar to (most frequently used) gamma-plutonium and just a wee short of U’s 19ish Mg/m^3. Freaky to load up a 100lb-ish casting with maybe just a “bread-loaf” of DU. The first few times the brain does not compute how heavy that stuff is!
“Dirty bombs” and poisonings like Putin’s victims suffered from have absolutely nothing to do with a few Kgs of DU or even raw uranium. Mercury and lead organometallics will jack up far more people with far less usage.
Tabloid paff…
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Update - BBC reports that police have arrested a man in Cheshire on terrorism charges in connection with this find.
But arrested and released on bail suggests something rather lower key at this stage. No doubt, investigations are ongoing.
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