An isotope of uranium, used for energy generation and in atomic weapons, containing one hundred and forty-three neutrons. It has a half-life of 7·038×108 years, whereupon it decays into thorium-231
Method of age determination that makes use of the radioactive decay of uranium-238 to uranium-234; the method can be used for dating sediments from either a marine or a playa lake environment. Because this method is useful for the period 100,000-1.2 million years before the present, it helps in bridging the gap between the carbon-14 dating method and the potassium-argon dating method
or common-lead dating Method of dating very old rocks by means of the amount of common lead they contain. Common lead is any lead from a rock or mineral that contains a large amount of lead and a small amount of the radioactive precursors of lead (i.e., the isotopes uranium-235, uranium-238, and thorium-232). By this method, the age of the Earth has been estimated to be 4.6 billion years. This figure is in good agreement with the age of meteorites and the age of the Moon as determined independently
Uranium that contains a reduced (depleted) amount of the fissile isotope U-235 compared to natural uranium; it is used in applications where radioactivity in not needed
a binary compound of uranium and fluorine, UF6; it is a grey solid, or heavy gas, and is used in the uranium enrichment process to produce fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons
Uranium having a percentage of uranium-235 smaller than the 0 7 percent found in natural uranium It is obtained from spent (used) fuel elements or as byproduct tails, or residues, from uranium isotope separation
Uranium having less than the natural 0 7% U-235 As a by-product of enrichment in the fuel cycle it generally has 0 25-0 30% U-235, the rest being U-238 Can be blended with highly-enriched uranium (eg from weapons) to make reactor fuel
It is what is left over when most of the highly radioactive types (isotopes) of uranium are removed for use as nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons The depleted uranium used in armor-piercing munitions and in enhanced armor protection for some Abrams tanks is also used in civilian industry, primarily for stabilizers in airplanes and boats
A by-product of uranium enrichment, the most common chemical form of which is depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) Natural uranium is composed of three isotopes: uranium-238 (99 284 percent); uranium-235 (0 711 percent); and uranium-234 (0 005 percent), all of which are radioactive The purpose of uranium enrichment is to concentrate uranium-235, the fissile isotope, in one stream The other stream which is low in uranium-235, is called "depleted uranium," which contains about 0 2 to 0 3 percent uranium-235
Uranium having a percentage of 235U smaller than the 0 7 percent found in natural uranium It is obtained as a by-product from uranium isotope separation (see Enrichment)
Uranium having a smaller percentage of uranium-235 than the 0 7 percent found in natural uranium It is a by-product of the uranium enrichment process, during which uranium-235 is culled from one batch of uranium, thereby depleting it, and then added to another batch to increase its concentrations of uranium-235
Uranium in which the content of the fissile isotope uranium-235 is less than the 0 7 % normally found in nature Typical of taillings from enrichment processes
A mildly radioactive element with two isotopes which are fissile (U-235 and U-233) and two which are fertile (U-238 and U-234) Uranium is the basic fuel of nuclear energy
the heaviest naturally occurring (metal) element in the earth's crust, exists as three isotopes in the following percentages by weight: U-238, 99 283%; U-234, 0 711%; and U-235, 0 0054%; by radioactivity: U-238, 48%; U-234, 50%; and U-235, 2%; U-235 is the only fissile isotope (capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction), i e it is the uranium "bomb material" and nuclear reactor fuel isotope
Uranium is a naturally occurring radioactive metal that is used to produce nuclear energy and weapons. a heavy white metal that is radioactive and is used to produce nuclear power and nuclear weapons. It is a chemical element : symbol U (Uranus; because the substance was discovered soon after the planet). Chemical element of the actinide series (with many transition element properties), chemical symbol U, atomic number
A heavy, naturally radioactive, metallic element of atomic number 92 Its two principally occurring isotopes are uranium-235 and uranium-238 Uranium-235 is indispensable to the nuclear industry because it is the only isotope existing in nature to any appreciable extent that is fissionable by thermal neutrons Uranium-238 is also important, because it absorbs neutrons to produce a radioactive isotope that subsequently decays to plutonium-239, an isotope that also is fissionable by thermal neutrons
The heaviest naturally occurring trace element and also a naturally occurring radioactive element which spontaneously "decays" into lighter elements Uranium was originally mined for use as the principal component of atomic bombs Since about 1971, it has been mined exclusively for use as fuel in nuclear power reactors
A naturally radioactive and very dense element Mine Uranium contains 0 7 percent of the isotope Uranium-235, needed for fission Uranium-235 is the principal nuclear fuel material used in today's nuclear power reactors
A natural and commonly occurring radioactive element which is a mixture of three isotopes; U-234, U-235, and U-238 By weight, natural uranium is about 0 01% U-234, 0 072% U-235, and 99 27% U-238
A heavy silvery-white metallic element, highly radioactive and easily oxidized Of the 14 known isotopes of uranium, 238U is the most abundant in nature
A mildly radioactive element with two isotopes which are fissile (U-235 and U-233) and two which are fertile (U-238 and U-234) Uranium is the basic raw material of nuclear energy
A radioactive element with the atomic number 92 and, as found in natural ores, an average atomic weight of 238 The two principal natural isotopes are uranium-235 (0 7 percent of natural uranium), which is fissionable, and uranium-238 (99 3 percent of natural uranium), which is fertile uranium-233 - A fissionable isotope bred in fertile thorium-232 Like plutonium-239 it is theoretically an excellent material for nuclear weapons, but is not known to have been used for this purpose Can be used as reactor fuel uranium-235 - The only naturally occurring fissionable isotope Natural uranium contains 0 7 percent U-235, light- water reactors use about 3 percent and weapons grade, highly enriched uranium noramlly consists of 93 percent of this isotope uranium-238 - A fertile material Natural uranium is composed of approximately 99 3 percent U-238
A heavy radioactive metal, used chiefly as fuel for nuclear reactors and weapons, but it also has uses in pigments Around 1950, uranium was considered a major factor in United States power and prestige, and did not have nearly the amount of negative connotation it has today
A heavy metal The two principal isotopes of natural uranium are U-235 and U-238 U-235 has the only readily fissionable nucleus which occurs in appreciable quantities in nature, hence its importance as nuclear fuel Only 1 part in 140 of natural uranium is U-235
A silvery, heavy, radioactive, polyvalent metallic element that is found especially in pitchblende and uraninite and exists naturally as a mixture of three isotopes of mass number 234, 235, and 238 in the proportions of 0 006 percent, 0 71 percent, and 99 28 percent, respectively (U, Atomic Number: 92)
A heavy element, containing ninety-two protons and varying numbers of neutrons Uranium-235, containing one hundred forty-three neutrons, is used as a fuel in nuclear fission Many forms of uranium are radioactive - WebElements: Uranium
the basic material for nuclear technology It is a slightly radioactive naturally occurring heavy metal that is more dense than lead Uranium is 40 times more common than silver (BEMR, June 1996, pg GL-9)
Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish- yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting
A dense, hard, silvery white metal that tarnishes in air, it is isolated from such ores as pitchblende. Until the discovery of the first transuranium element in 1940, uranium was believed to be the heaviest element. Radioactivity was discovered in uranium by A.-H. Becquerel. All its isotopes are radioactive; several have half-lives long enough to permit determination of the age of the Earth by uranium-thorium-lead dating and uranium-234-uranium-238 dating. Nuclear fission was discovered in 1938 in uranium bombarded with neutrons, and the self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, the atomic bomb, and the generation of nuclear power followed. Uranium has various valences in compounds, some of which have been used as colours in ceramic glazes, in lightbulb filaments, in photography, and as dyes and mordants
This metal is one of the heaviest of all known elements It was named after the planet Uranus Uranium gives off radioactivity As it loses atomic particles, it decays and ends up, after millions of years, as lead People working with uranium often need protective clothing to shield their bodies from radiation damage Uranium is the fuel used to make nuclear energy in nuclear power plants It is mined in many countries
A radioactive element with two isotopes which are fissile (uranium-235 and uranium-233) and two which are fertile (uranium-238 and uranium-234) Uranium is the basic raw material of nuclear energy
The heaviest element found in nature Approximately 997 out of every 1000 uranium atoms are uranium-238 The remaining 3 atoms are the fissile uranium-235 The uranium-235 atom splits, or fissions, into lighter elements when its nucleus is struck by a neutron One of four primary radionuclides in FUSRAP wastes, including radium-226, radon-222 and thorium-230
The uranium isotope with mass number 235 and half-life 7.04 × 10 years, fissionable with slow neutrons and capable in a critical mass of sustaining a chain reaction that can proceed explosively with appropriate mechanical arrangements
The most common isotope of uranium, having mass number 238 and half-life 4.46 × 10 years, nonfissionable but irradiated with neutrons to produce fissionable plutonium 239