UCOR has spent years cleaning up debris in Alpha-2 to get ready for demolition. Because the demolition process is an open-air demolition, the clean-up process has involved getting rid of all ...

There are other uses of uranium apart from nuclear weapons as discussed in this article. Uranium is a silver-grey metal that ...

A company aiming to open the world’s first commercial laser uranium enrichment plant in western Kentucky took a key step over ...

In uranium isotopes, the number after the "U" relates to the combined number of protons and neutrons. For example, there are 92 protons in uranium and 143 neutrons in the U-235 isotope: so 92+143 ...

Unenriched, or natural, uranium contains about 0.7% of the fissile uranium-235 (U-235) isotope. ("Fissile" means it's capable of undergoing the fission process by which energy is produced in a nuclear ...

“Overnight, we deepened the strike on the nuclear site in Isfahan and in western Iran. On the screen, you can see the site where reconversion of enriched uranium takes place. This is the stage ...

So far, strikes on Iran's facilities have created limited chemical and radiological hazards. Experts say that's not likely to change even if the U.S. uses a big bomb.

If the U.S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards see little risk of widespread contamination. The site in ...

The heavier uranium-238 moves to the edges of the centrifuge, leaving the uranium-235 in the middle. This is only so effective, so the spinning process is done over and over again, building up the ...

Only 0.72% of it is uranium-235 with 92 protons and 143 neutrons (the remaining 0.01% are other isotopes). For nuclear power reactors or weapons, we need to change the isotope proportions.

The United States wants all of Iran's highly enriched uranium (HEU) to be shipped out of the country. Tehran says it should only send out any excess amount above a ceiling that was agreed in a ...