When most people hear the word uranium, they think of mushroom clouds, Cold War standoffs or the glowing green rods from ...

Uranium has civilian uses that have nothing to do with weapons. For a bomb, the uranium needs to be a lot more concentrated.

When Israeli aircraft recently struck a uranium-enrichment complex in the nation, Iran could have been days away from ...

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

Centrifuges exploit the fact that uranium-238 is about 1% heavier than uranium-235. They take uranium (in gas form) and at 50,000 to 70,000 rotations per minute, with the outer walls of the ...

More common than gold, uranium is abundant on Earth. But less than one percent of the naturally occurring element is useful for nuclear power.

99.27 per cent of it is uranium-238, which has 92 protons and 146 neutrons. Only 0.72 per cent of it is uranium-235 with 92 protons and 143 neutrons (the remaining 0.01 per cent are other isotopes).

To “enrich” uranium means taking the naturally found element and increasing the proportion of uranium-235 while removing uranium-238. There are a few ways to do this (including new inventions from ...

Not that anyone asked, but uranium enrichment is certainly a newsworthy topic where a little science might be helpful. Here's ...

The difference between uranium-238 and uranium-235 When we dig uranium out of the ground, 99.27% of it is uranium-238, which has 92 protons and 146 neutrons. Only 0.72% of it is uranium-235 with 92 ...

The difference between uranium-238 and uranium-235 When we dig uranium out of the ground, 99.27 per cent of it is uranium-238, which has 92 protons and 146 neutrons.