Uranium's use in nuclear weapons is, understandably, the source of the widespread phobia felt by most for uranium. However, it is only weakly radioactive — the half-life of 238 U is 4.468 × 10 ...

Uranium is the primary fuel for nuclear reactors and must be managed properly, in a safe and sustainable manner. Recent annual production of natural uranium world-wide has been between 55,000 and ...

The enrichment centrifuge is a device used to extract uranium-235 isotope from a sample of natural uranium. U-235 is fissile and thus useful to generate nuclear power and to build nuclear weapons.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A biomimetic adsorbent inspired by the Chinese sweetgum tree's fruit structure has been developed to efficiently extract uranium from seawater. This design ...

Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) is the basic material to fabricate nuclear fuel. It consists of uranium hexafluoride that is a white-grey, waxy solid at standard temperature and pressure. LEU is made by ...

But in this case, Trump could be pretty effective Sudafed. Remember how uranium prices shot up in late 2023 on the back of Kazatomprom’s production issues? That saw the nuclear fuel feedstock ...

Kazakhstan, the world’s largest uranium producer, is hoping to capitalise on a nuclear power resurgence, according to mining executives speaking at PDAC 2025 in Toronto yesterday (2 March).