If only you realized how goddamn toxic uranium is.
You need to ignore all talk about radiation with uranium. The biotoxicity due to chemistry is so high, that the LD50 dose of 238U due to heavy metal chemistry is less than half the LD50 due to radiation. Simply put, the thing that kills you when ingesting any natural uranium is not radiation, but its chemical toxicity as a heavy metal; so much so that the symptoms you get (unless you get a huge dose, tens or hundreds of times the half-the-time-deadly-dose or LD50) are because of heavy metal poisoning and nothing to do with radiation. For radioactive uranium, it depends on the form in which it gets ingested.
Uranyl ions (UO22+) also have 10× the biosolubility of e.g. uranium dust; only half a percent of uranium is absorbed when ingested (except in lungs), but about 5% of uranyl ions are absorbed. It accumulates in your bones, and causes all sorts of internal organ and brain damage, even in quite low doses (compare to the effects of ingesting e.g. mercury and lead).
The most ridiculous thing I've ever heard about uranium is how "depleted uranium shells" are "safe".
When a depleted uranium round hits a target like heavy armor, a lot of it vaporizes and forms uranium dust, and surprise surprise, uranyl ions.
The only way you can make it even more dangerous is have those uranyl ions form uranyl salts. And of course, uranyl in aqueous solution is a weak acid, so when that dust settles down in any kind of puddle in the ground, guess what you get.
All this has been known at least since the 1960s, so anyone who tries to tell you how depleted uranium rounds are safe, are bullshitting you.
The "but there is no more radiation, it's depleted!" is just a sleight-of-hand, like telling you how bullets have never killed anyone, because you cannot throw one fast enough to hurt anyone.
Yes, this also means that anyone using depleted uranium rounds is actually committing a worse offense than those using biological weapons: at least biological weapons tend to break down after some time. Uranyl salts stay on the ground surface and eventually end up in animals and humans. This, too, has been known since 1980s at least.
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