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How Uranium Enrichment Works

Uranium enrichment basically refers to the separation process between the uranium-238 and the uranium-235 isotopes. Because only uranium-235 can be used for fission reactions - such as those experienced in nuclear weapons and nuclear powered reactors - and uranium-235 makes up for less than 1 percent of the whole ura...

13 May 2008
06:15 GMT

Fungi Could Stabilize Depleted Uranium Fragments

Depleted uranium, being twice as dense as lead, is often used by the military to develop armor penetrating weapons. This means that material containing hazardous radioactive uranium-235 could be spread throughout the battlefield into tiny fragments practically impossible to collect. Therefore the area remains partial...

6 May 2008
03:53 GMT




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