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    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...
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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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    Shinkolobwe (redirect from Uranium in Congo)
    Shinkolobwe, or Kasolo, or Chinkolobew, or Shainkolobwe, was a radium and uranium mine in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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  • Uranium in the environment is a global health concern, and comes from both natural and man-made sources. Beyond naturally occurring uranium, mining, phosphates...
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    Protactinium (redirect from Uranium-X)
    material from uranium; however, he could not characterize it as a new chemical element and thus named it uranium X (UX). Crookes dissolved uranium nitrate in...
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    Uranyl nitrate is a water-soluble yellow uranium salt with the formula UO2(NO3)2 · n H2O. The hexa-, tri-, and dihydrates are known. The compound is mainly...
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    Conversion Co. (JCO) on 30 September 1999 due to improper handling of liquid uranium fuel for an experimental reactor. The incident spanned approximately 20...
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    Nuclear weapon (redirect from Uranium bomb)
    for nuclear weapons applications have been uranium-235 and plutonium-239. Less commonly used has been uranium-233. Neptunium-237 and some isotopes of americium...
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  • have been used in nuclear reactors, and uranium and plutonium are critical elements of nuclear weapons. Uranium and thorium also have diverse current or...
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    was mined for uranium, which occurs in scattered areas of the Shinarump Conglomerate; vanadium and copper are associated with uranium in some deposits...
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    synthesized and isolated in late 1940 and early 1941, by deuteron bombardment of uranium-238 in the 1.5-metre (60 in) cyclotron at the University of California...
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  • The uranyl ion is an oxycation of uranium in the oxidation state +6, with the chemical formula UO2+ 2. It has a linear structure with short U–O bonds...
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    named the thorium series that ends at stable 208Pb. On Earth, thorium and uranium are the only elements with no stable or nearly-stable isotopes that still...
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    reactor nuclear power station uses enriched uranium fuel, it follows that states must be able either to enrich uranium or purchase it on an international market...
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    heavy water reactors have the advantage of being able to run on natural uranium without using graphite moderators that pose radiological and dust explosion...
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  • a church, but in a nuclear power plant, and that his bride is a rod of uranium. Fuckwitt's surreal misunderstandings are sometimes extended in multiple...
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  • (Richard Eastham). Ike and Jim-Bob try a get-rich-quick scheme by hunting for uranium with a geiger counter. 220 21 "The Hostage" Herbert Hirschman Marjorie...
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    amo", "En carne viva" and "Estar enamorado". In 1980 Raphael receives a Uranium disc, in recognition of his fifty million copies sold throughout his recording...
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    element. Naturally occurring technetium is a spontaneous fission product in uranium ore and thorium ore (the most common source), or the product of neutron...
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  • arise in the decay chain of the primordial isotopes thorium-232, uranium-238, and uranium-235. Examples include the natural isotopes of polonium and radium...
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    exceedingly scarce, it is typically synthesized by bombarding uranium-235 (enriched uranium) with thermal neutrons to produce promethium-147 as a fission...
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    for example, trimethylammonium groups, e.g. polyAPTAC), good for silica, uranium, nitrates removal. weakly acidic cation (WAC), typically featuring carboxylic...
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    tungsten. Additionally, there is believed to be considerable reserves of uranium and nickel present in the country's largely under-explored eastern regions...
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    by the α-decay of radium-226. Both are a part of the natural uranium decay chain. Uranium is found in soil throughout the world in varying concentrations...
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    studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ Reform Movement (Orgelbewegung). Schweitzer was born on 14 January 1875...
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    and food resources, including diamonds, sugar, salt, gold, iron, cobalt, uranium, copper, bauxite, silver, petroleum, natural gas, cocoa beans, and tropical...
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    allegations that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium; his New York Times op-ed piece, "What I Didn't Find in Africa"; and the...
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    but now with a simpler design that only had to work with highly enriched uranium, in a single group. This device became Little Boy in February 1945. After...
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    as a result of poor regulation of uranium mining in that period. As of 2005, the Navajo Nation has prohibited uranium mining altogether within its borders...
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    dose rate of 0.85 mSv/a, close to the regulatory limit, because of the uranium content of the granite structure. According to the conservative ICRP model...
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