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...

proportion of uranium-236, and much smaller amounts of other isotopes of uranium such as uranium-234, uranium-233, and uranium-232. Uranium-239 is usually...

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...

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...

quantities as intermediate products in the decay chains of uranium-238, uranium-235, and thorium-232. Some minerals that contain thorium include apatite, sphene...

comparable proportion of uranium-236, and much smaller amounts of other isotopes of uranium such as uranium-234, uranium-233, and uranium-232. In a fission nuclear...

an isotope of thorium, 232 Th , as the fertile material. In the reactor, 232 Th is transmuted into the fissile artificial uranium isotope 233 U which is...

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...

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...

quantity by the nuclear fuel cycle, and the longer-lived uranium-235, uranium-238, and thorium-232 occur in nature.) Unlike plutonium, minor actinides, fission...

the uranium-232 made the material difficult to handle, and the uranium-232 led to possible pre-detonation. Separating the uranium-232 from the uranium-233...

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...

to that goal is the co-production of trace amounts of uranium-232 due to side-reactions. U-232 hazards, a result of its highly radioactive decay products...

which is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Decay of the associated uranium-232 produces thorium-228 with a radioactive half-life of 1.9 years and several...

and then to uranium-233, which in turn is used as fuel. Hence, like uranium-238, thorium-232 is a fertile material. n neutron + Th 90 232 ⟶ Th 90 233...

Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope 235U than natural...

refer to: Isotopes of uranium Uranium-232 Uranium-233 Uranium-234 Uranium-235 Uranium-236 Uranium-238 Uranium-239 Uranium-240 Uranium (Caria), a town of...

007 MeV and the decay product is protactinium-232. This decays with a half-life of 1.3 days to uranium-232. This particular isotope of neptunium has a mass...

U-232 may refer to: German submarine U-232, a German Type VIIC submarine used in World War II Uranium-232 (U-232 or 232U), an isotope of uranium This disambiguation...

require energy to be added. For example, performing the calculation for uranium-232 shows that alpha particle emission releases 5.4 MeV of energy, while...

neutrons: (n,2n) reactions produce small amounts of protactinium-231 and uranium-232 in the thorium cycle which is otherwise relatively free of highly radioactive...

long-lived nuclides are uranium-238 (half-life 4.5 billion years), uranium-235 (half-life 700 million years) and thorium-232 (half-life 14 billion years)...

Uranium hexafluoride, sometimes called hex, is an inorganic compound with the formula UF6. Uranium hexafluoride is a volatile, toxic white solid that is...

of the long-lived heavy nuclides, thorium-232, uranium-238, and uranium-235, spontaneous fission of uranium-238, and nuclear transmutation reactions induced...

half-lives for alpha or beta decay. Examples of these isotopes are uranium-238 and thorium-232. On the other hand, other than the lightest nuclides, nuclides...

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the fissile uranium-233: Th 90 232 + n 0 1 ⟶ Th 90 233 → 22.3   min β − Pa 91 233 → 26.967   d β − U 92 233 ⋅ {\displaystyle {\ce {^{232}_{90}Th + ^{1}_{0}n...

Reprocessed uranium (RepU) is the uranium recovered from nuclear reprocessing, as done commercially in France, the UK and Japan and by nuclear weapons...

the three naturally abundant ones: uranium-235 (704 million years), uranium-238 (4.468 billion years), and thorium-232 (14.05 billion years). Given the...

characteristics of the alkaline earth metals formed by irradiation of uranium with neutrons")". Naturwissenschaften. 27 (1): 11–15. Bibcode:1939NW.....