"Uranium oxide" refers to a compound made up of uranium and oxygen atoms. It is a type of uranium mineral that is commonly used for producing nuclear energy and as a component in nuclear weapons.
Sentences with «uranium oxide»
A nuclear reactor generates power from a cluster of fuel rods inside its core, each filled with uranium oxide. (discovermagazine.com)
Rather than the pellets of uranium oxide used in other fast reactors and conventional reactors as fuel, GE would fabricate metal alloy fuels, with the plutonium or uranium mixed with zirconium metal. (scientificamerican.com)