Heisenberg noted that they could use pure uranium 235, a rare isotope, as an explosive. In the summer of 1940, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, a younger colleague and friend of Heisenberg's ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defines uranium as a Low Specific Activity material. In its natural state, it consists of three isotopes (U-234, U-235 and U-238). Other isotopes that ...

T here is a fairly popular idea circulating the Internet that a single gram of uranium contains about 20 billion calories, with some joking that eating it could sustain you like a turbo-charged diet ...

It either must be enriched—made more concentrated in a rare form of uranium (U-235)—or converted into plutonium (Pu-239). Heavy water can play a role in breeding weapons-grade plutonium from ...

A single kilogram of uranium-235 (the most popular fissile isotope of uranium) can theoretically produce the same amount of power as 1.5 million kilograms of coal. Nuclear fission also doesn’t ...

“The track record for this industry is abysmal,” said Taylor McKinnon, who is the southwest director of the environmental ...

Quite literally, at the core of all this nuclear expansion is uranium, a radioactive element that is mined and then enriched into the U-235 isotope used by most of the 440 or so commercial nuclear ...

Uranium enrichment services provider Urenco has selected British construction engineering company Costain to deliver new and ...

The U.S. government wants to select "disparate" locations where it could eventually make bomb-grade uranium again.