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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German submarine U-235 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter...
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amount of fissile uranium-235 (U-235) contained in the fuel assemblies at the beginning of the cycle. A higher percentage of U-235 in the core at the beginning...
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The CASA/IPTN CN-235 is a medium-range twin-engined transport aircraft that was jointly developed by CASA of Spain and Indonesian manufacturer IPTN. It...
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weapons-grade uranium with U-235 levels usually above 90%, suitable for nuclear weapons. The uranium in yellowcake is almost exclusively (>99%) U-238, with very low...
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Torpedo (2019 film) (category U-boat fiction)
Torpedo (Also known as 'U-235') is a 2019 Belgian action & war film directed by Sven Huybrechts and starring Koen De Bouw. The film is loosely based on...
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the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device made from weapons-grade uranium (U-235) enriched in a gaseous diffusion plant in...
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isotopes: uranium-238 (U-238), accounting for 99.3% and uranium-235 (U-235) accounting for about 0.7%. U-238 has 146 neutrons and U-235 has 143 neutrons. Different...
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only moderately enriched with U-235 relative to U-238, so the U-238 continues to serve as a denaturation agent for any U-235 produced by plutonium decay...
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against mass for Pu-239 has a more shallow valley than that observed for U-235, when the neutrons are thermal neutrons. The curves for the fission of the...
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is U-238, while approximately 0.72% is U-235, fissile by thermal neutrons, and the remaining 0.0055% is U-234. If natural uranium is enriched to 3% U-235...
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not lead to fission produces plutonium (from 238 U) and minor actinides (from both 235 U and 238 U) whose radiotoxicity is far higher than that of the...
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produced nearly instantaneously by the fission of U-235. But a few—approximately 0.7 percent in a U-235-fueled reactor operating at steady-state—are produced...
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year: Th-229, U-233, U-235, Np-236, Pu-239, Pu-241, Am-242m, Cm-243, Cm-245, Cm-247, Bk-248, Cf-249, Cf-251 and Es-252. Of these, only U-235 is naturally...
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primarily of two isotopes U-238 and U-235, with 99.28% of the metal being U-238 while 0.71% is U-235, and the remaining 0.01% is mostly U-234. The number in...
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develop in secret than existing weapons. Separating weapons-grade uranium (U-235) or breeding plutonium (Pu-239) requires a substantial and difficult-to-conceal...
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more likely to cause uranium-235 to nuclear fission than to be captured by uranium-238. If at least one neutron from the U-235 fission strikes another nucleus...
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album, Atomic, share "U-235"". Consequence of Sound. Gordon, Jeremy (12 January 2016). "Mogwai Announce New Album Atomic, Share "U-235"". Pitchfork. "Atomic :...
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consist primarily of the unconsumed remains of the original fuel (typically U-235, U-238, and/or Pu-239). The fuel is first dissolved in nitric acid at a concentration...
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in the U-235 isotope); or 10,000 grams or more of uranium-235 (contained in uranium enriched above natural but less than 10 percent in the U-235 isotope)...
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Type VII submarine (redirect from German submarines U-1027 and U-1028)
was powered by two AEG GU 460/8-276 (except in U-45, U-46, U-49, U-51, U-52, U-54, U-73 to U-76, U-99 and U-100, which retained the BBC motor of the VIIA)...
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detonated over Hiroshima, worked, using uranium-235 as its fissile material. In the Little Boy design, the U-235 "bullet" had a mass of around 86 pounds (39 kg)...
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enrichment, relying on the slight mass difference between atoms of U-238 and U-235 in uranium hexafluoride gas. In a liquid suspension, many particles...
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edge of the cylinder heavier gas molecules containing U-238 collect, while molecules containing U-235 concentrate at the centre and are then fed to another...
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Ka (Cyrillic) (redirect from U+041A)
К к к Named character reference К к KOI8-R and KOI8-U 235 EB 203 CB Code page 855 199 C7 198 C6 Code page 866 138 8A 170 AA Windows-1251...
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carrier and used highly enriched uranium (93% U-235) as "seed" fuel surrounded by a "blanket" of natural U-238, in a so-called seed-and-blanket design;...
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Enriched uranium (section Reprocessed uranium (RepU))
uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope separation...
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86400 seconds/day = 8.6×1010 J Calculated: 3.44×10−10 J/U-235-fission × 1×10−3 kg / (235 amu per U-235-fission × 1.66×10−27 amu/kg) = 8.82×10−10 J "10 striking...
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thorium as fertile and highly enriched U-235 as fissile fuel. Though named thorium high temperature reactor, mostly U-235 was fissioned. The THTR-300 was a...
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two neutrons (n), plus energy: 235 U + n ⟶ 95 S r + 139 X e + 2 n + 180 M e V {\displaystyle \ {}^{235}\mathrm {U} +\mathrm {n} \longrightarrow {}^{95}\mathrm...
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