Which risk increases when depleted uranium is enriched?

A)Spontaneous criticality becomes more likely✓

B)Radioactive half-life gets significantly shorter

C)Chemical toxicity becomes markedly higher

D)Neutron emission rates drop dramatically

💡 Explanation

Enrichment concentrates fissile isotopes, and increases the probability of a self-sustaining fission reaction via the effectiveNEUTRON MULTIPLICATION factor; therefore criticality risk rises, rather than half life decreasing; this depends on isotopic ratios, not uranium toxicity or neutron emission rates.

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Which risk increases when depleted uranium is enriched?

💡 Explanation

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