Uranium (92U) is a naturally occurring radioactive element (radioelement) with no stable isotopes. It has two primordial isotopes, uranium-238 and uranium-235...
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Uranium-238 (238 U or U-238) is the most common isotope of uranium found in nature, with a relative abundance of 99%. Unlike uranium-235, it is non-fissile...
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Naturally occurring uranium is composed of three major isotopes: uranium-238 (238U with 99.2732–99.2752% natural abundance), uranium-235 (235U, 0.7198–0...
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most common isotopes in natural uranium are uranium-238 (which has 146 neutrons and accounts for over 99% of uranium on Earth) and uranium-235 (which has...
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Uranium-234 (234 U or U-234) is an isotope of uranium. In natural uranium and in uranium ore, 234U occurs as an indirect decay product of uranium-238...
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Uranium-235 (235 U or U-235) is an isotope of uranium making up about 0.72% of natural uranium. Unlike the predominant isotope uranium-238, it is fissile...
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Isotope separation is the process of concentrating specific isotopes of a chemical element by removing other isotopes. The use of the nuclides produced...
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has no stable isotopes. The four naturally occurring isotopes allow a standard atomic weight to be given. Twenty-nine radioisotopes of protactinium have...
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observationally stable isotopes: 204Pb, 206Pb, 207Pb, 208Pb. Lead-204 is entirely a primordial nuclide and is not a radiogenic nuclide. The three isotopes lead-206...
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Uranium-236 (236 U or U-236) is an isotope of uranium that is neither fissile with thermal neutrons, nor very good fertile material, but is generally...
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Plutonium-239 (category Isotopes of plutonium)
is also one of the three main isotopes demonstrated usable as fuel in thermal spectrum nuclear reactors, along with uranium-235 and uranium-233. Plutonium-239...
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decay products before 237 Np are isotopes of uranium and protactinium, and the primary products after are isotopes of plutonium. Neptunium is the heaviest...
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neutron capture by uranium, and thus a standard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all artificial elements, it has no stable isotopes. It was synthesized...
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Uranium-233 (233 U or U-233) is a fissile isotope of uranium that is bred from thorium-232 as part of the thorium fuel cycle. Uranium-233 was investigated...
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Gas centrifuge (redirect from Uranium centrifuge)
University of Virginia developed the process by separating two chlorine isotopes through a vacuum ultracentrifuge. It was one of the initial isotopic separation...
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Separation of isotopes by laser excitation (SILEX) is a process for enriching uranium to fuel nuclear reactors that may also present a growing nuclear...
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Uranium-232 (232 U ) is an isotope of uranium. It has a half-life of around 69 years and is a side product in the thorium cycle. It has been cited as an...
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Fissile material (redirect from Fissionable isotopes)
Examples of these isotopes are uranium-238 and thorium-232. On the other hand, other than the lightest nuclides, nuclides with an odd number of protons...
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and 235 92U as uranium two-thirty-five (American English) or uranium-two-three-five (British) instead of 235-92-uranium. Some isotopes/nuclides are radioactive...
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laser isotope separation, or AVLIS, is a method by which specially tuned lasers are used to separate isotopes of uranium using selective ionization of hyperfine...
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Actinide (category Pages that use a deprecated format of the chem tags)
with the isotopes of californium. Prolonged neutron irradiation also produces a long-lived isotope 254Es (t1/2 = 275.5 days). Twenty isotopes of fermium...
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reactions. The specific nuclear reaction may be the fission of heavy isotopes (e.g., uranium-235, 235U). A nuclear chain reaction releases several million...
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Natural nuclear fission reactor (category Uranium)
began an investigation. A series of measurements of the relative abundances of the two most significant isotopes of uranium mined at Oklo showed anomalous...
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Decay chain (redirect from Uranium Series)
often after a series of decays, a stable isotope is reached: there are 251 stable isotopes in the universe. In stable isotopes, light elements typically...
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separation of isotopes of uranium necessary to create the atomic bomb. Prout's hypothesis was an early 19th-century attempt to explain the properties of the...
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Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. Over 50,000 tons of uranium were produced in 2019. Kazakhstan, Canada, and...
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Calutron (redirect from Electromagnetic isotope separation)
mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium. It was developed by Ernest Lawrence during the Manhattan Project...
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Natural abundance (redirect from Isotope abundance)
because the different uranium isotopes have different half-lives, when the Earth was younger, the isotopic composition of uranium was different. As an...
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Yellowcake (redirect from Uranium diuranate)
definition, this stage of uranium has the same radioactivity as it did in nature when it was underground, as the proportions of isotopes are at their native...
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Protactinium (redirect from Uranium-X)
most stable isotope 231Pa and lighter (211Pa to 231Pa) is alpha decay, producing isotopes of actinium. The primary mode for the heavier isotopes (232Pa to...
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