• 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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  • Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope...
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    Uranium-238 (238U 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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  • reactions by uranium atoms, a fact not discovered until 1951. Twenty-five neptunium radioisotopes have been characterized, with the most stable being 237 Np with...
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    natural uranium are uranium-238 (which has 146 neutrons and accounts for over 99% of uranium on Earth) and uranium-235 (which has 143 neutrons). Uranium has...
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  • Uranium-236 (236U) is an isotope of uranium that is neither fissile with thermal neutrons, nor very good fertile material, but is generally considered...
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  • U-237 may refer to: German submarine U-237, a German Type VIIC submarine used in World War II Uranium-237 (U-237 or 237U), an isotope of uranium This disambiguation...
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  • of neptunium with uranium, americium, plutonium, zirconium, and iron, so as to recycle long-lived waste isotopes such as neptunium-237 into shorter-lived...
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    Experiments have been conducted with uranium-233 (the fissile material at the heart of the thorium fuel cycle). Neptunium-237 and some isotopes of americium...
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    device by studying the ratio and presence of tell-tale isotopes, namely uranium-237, present in the fallout. This information could potentially reveal the...
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    discovered the uranium-237 isotope and pioneered the studies of symmetric fission phenomena occurring upon fast neutron irradiation of uranium (1939–1940)...
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    composition. For example, uranium-237 is a unique thermonuclear explosion marker, as it is produced by a (n,2n) reaction from uranium-238, with the minimal...
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  • decay is possible. Plutonium-241 also has a rare alpha decay branch to uranium-237, occurring in about 0.002% of decays. With a Q-value of 5.055±0.005 MeV...
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    fell upon the ship carried strontium-90, cesium-137, selenium-141, and uranium-237. During their return, the crew began showing symptoms of radiation poisoning...
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  • Uranium-233 (233U 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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    Decay chain (redirect from Uranium Series)
    decaying to uranium-235 via alpha emission with a half-life 24,500 years. There has also been large-scale production of neptunium-237, which has resurrected...
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  • S2CID 257976576. Yirka, Bob (April 5, 2023). "Previously unknown isotope of uranium discovered". Phys.org. Retrieved 2023-04-12. 14 C is used in radiocarbon...
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  • ""The discoveries of uranium 237 and symmetric fission — From the archival papers of Nishina and Kimura"_The discovery of a new uranium isotope, 237U". Proceedings...
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  • Retrieved 2008-09-12. Ikeda, Nagao (25 July 2011). "The discoveries of uranium 237 and symmetric fission — From the archival papers of Nishina and Kimura"...
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  • Reprocessed uranium (RepU) is the uranium recovered from nuclear reprocessing, as done commercially in France, the UK and Japan and by nuclear weapons...
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  • Retrieved 8 June 2016. Ikeda, Nagao (25 July 2011). "The discoveries of uranium 237 and symmetric fission – From the archival papers of Nishina and Kimura"...
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  • work, he described a post-WWII 1965 Nazi conspiracy to develop and use uranium-237 bombs, months before the first successful atomic test at Alamogordo –...
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  • Picon, Marius; Flahaut, Jean (1953). "Dimorphism of the uranium disulfide, US2". Compt. Rend. 237: 808–810. Assmann, Helmut; Stehle, Heinz (1981) [Mid-1979]...
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  • dust therefore greatly reduces radiation exposure. The beta decaying uranium-237 and neptunium-239, that are generated from the neutron capture of U-235...
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    transmuted into the fissile artificial uranium isotope 233 U which is the nuclear fuel. Unlike natural uranium, natural thorium contains only trace amounts...
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    more-commonly available isotopes of uranium and thorium, such as uranium-238 and thorium-232, as opposed to the rare uranium-235 which is used in conventional...
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  • exposure of uranium-238 to a large neutron flux resulting from the explosion produced heavy isotopes of uranium, including uranium-253 and uranium-255, and...
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    reprocessed uranium, also known as the spent fuel material, can in principle also be re-used as fuel, but that is only economical when uranium supply is...
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    the M1A1HA (Heavy Armor) and later American tank variants, a depleted uranium alloy. Some companies offer titanium carbide modules.[citation needed]...
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    used uranium-235. Three methods were employed for uranium enrichment: electromagnetic, gaseous, and thermal. In parallel with the work on uranium was an...
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