• Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope...
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  • research sites, two uranium mines, a research reactor, and uranium processing facilities that include three known uranium enrichment plants. Commencing...
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    city. It was a gun-type fission weapon which used uranium that had been enriched in the isotope uranium-235 to power its explosive reaction. Little Boy...
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    natural uranium, but light water reactors must use low enriched uranium because of the higher neutron absorption of light water. Uranium enrichment removes...
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    The Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act (H.R. 1042) is a U.S. law enacted on May 13, 2024, banning low-enriched uranium imports from Russia. Approved...
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    enriching is downblending. Surplus highly enriched uranium can be downblended with depleted uranium or natural uranium to turn it into low-enriched uranium...
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    natural uranium are uranium-238 (which has 146 neutrons and accounts for over 99% of uranium on Earth) and uranium-235 (which has 143 neutrons). Uranium has...
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    emission. Enriched uranium contains more 234U than natural uranium as a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process aimed at obtaining uranium-235, which...
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    uranium enriched to 89% was delivered to Los Alamos by July 1945. The entire 50 kg, along with some 50%-enriched, averaging out to about 85% enriched...
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    (medium-enriched uranium). Stocks in excess of 300 kg enriched up to 3.67% would be diluted to 0.7% or sold in return for uranium ore, while uranium enriched...
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    more enriched uranium from a given amount of natural uranium, by re-enriching tails ultimately leaving a depleted uranium tail of lower enrichment. This...
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    use uranium enriched to 3–5% U-235, the only fissile isotope that is found in significant quantity in nature. One alternative to this low-enriched uranium...
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  • Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) is an Iranian underground uranium enrichment facility located 20 miles (32 km) northeast of the Iranian city of Qom...
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    Yellowcake (redirect from Uranium diuranate)
    uranium. Purified uranium can also be enriched into the isotope U-235. In this process, the uranium oxides are combined with fluorine to form uranium...
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  • converted and enriched in France, or already enriched. For example, Kazakh uranium is converted and enriched in Russia, while uranium from Niger is converted...
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  • use enriched uranium. Nuclear weapons take a concentration of 90% uranium-235, and light water reactors require a concentration of roughly 3% uranium-235...
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    Nuclear fuel (redirect from Uranium fuel)
    converted by heating with hydrogen to form UO2. It can be made from enriched uranium hexafluoride by reacting with ammonia to form a solid called ammonium...
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    COVID-19 pandemic. NTI supported the development of an international low-enriched uranium bank to help prevent the proliferation of nuclear technology. NTI advisor...
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    their fuel requires more highly enriched uranium, typically up to 20% U-235, although some use 93% U-235; while 20% enrichment is not generally considered...
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    codename given by the Manhattan Project to the program to produce enriched uranium for atomic bombs using the gaseous diffusion method. Originally the...
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    could be completed. Because the light water reactors would require enriched uranium to be imported from outside North Korea, the amount of reactor fuel...
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    of Piketon, Ohio, that previously produced enriched uranium, including highly enriched weapons-grade uranium, for the United States Atomic Energy Commission...
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  • of low enriched uranium (LEU) for countries that need a backup source of LEU to fuel their nuclear reactors. Countries that do have enrichment technology...
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  • to 234U. Enriched uranium contains more 234U than natural uranium as a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process aimed at obtaining uranium-235, which...
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    is used in enriching uranium for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Uranium dioxide is converted with hydrofluoric acid (HF) to uranium tetrafluoride:...
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    initially conducting studies on uranium metallurgy.: 87  Uranium enrichment is an extremely difficult process because uranium in its natural state is composed...
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  • Pennsylvania was investigated for losing 200–600 pounds (91–272 kg) of highly enriched uranium, with suspicions that it had gone to Israel's nuclear weapons program...
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    nuclear program, making the Soviet Union the most effective supplier of enriched uranium. Franz Simon, Rudolf Peierls, Klaus Fuchs and Nicholas Kurti made important...
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    Gaseous diffusion (category Uranium)
    produce enriched uranium by forcing gaseous uranium hexafluoride (UF6) through microporous membranes. This produces a slight separation (enrichment factor...
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  • found in Low-Enriched Uranium that is used in existing light-water reactors. The Energy Policy Act of 1992 created the United States Enrichment Corporation...
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