Sentences with phrase «better than uranium»

On the face of it looks far better than uranium as a way to get power from the atom.

Not exact matches

Uranium 238 is much more common in nature than uranium 235 but does not fission well, so fuel manufacturers boost the uranium 235 content to a few percent, which is enough to maintain a continuous fission reaction and generate electUranium 238 is much more common in nature than uranium 235 but does not fission well, so fuel manufacturers boost the uranium 235 content to a few percent, which is enough to maintain a continuous fission reaction and generate electuranium 235 but does not fission well, so fuel manufacturers boost the uranium 235 content to a few percent, which is enough to maintain a continuous fission reaction and generate electuranium 235 content to a few percent, which is enough to maintain a continuous fission reaction and generate electricity.

For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

The machines handle the decaying element's radiation better than human miners and can tolerate the radon gas released by the ore; early Navajo miners of uranium in the U.S. — and their families exposed to residual radioactive dust and debris as well as contaminated water — developed lung cancer and other ailments by the 1970s and 1980s.

Today's nuclear reactors do dramatically better by splitting uranium atoms through fission, but they still fail to extract more than 0.08 percent of their energy.

Data from roughly 275,000 groundwater samples in the High Plains and Central Valley aquifers show that many Americans live less than two - thirds of a mile from wells that often far exceed the uranium guideline set by the Environmental Protection Agency.

As a result, the sources of radiation exposure would be different isotopes for a thorium - based radiation source than uranium - based source, and the relationship between exposure and health effect would be different as well.

Although the USA government sponsored Uranium Rush is far less well remembered than the Gold Rush, at the time it was big news.

Better to make «greenhouse platforming» irrelevant NOW rather than AFTER Uranium is installed... Your's Peter K Anderson aka Hartlod (tm) [email protected] (The word «Hartlod» in the registered Trademark of Peter K Anderson.)

But there's none better than Australia, particularly because it's blessed with abundant coal, gas and uranium reserves, the envy of the World.

In March, a campaign spokesperson told Grist, «Whether it's the exceptional destructiveness of uranium mining, the fact that there's no good way to store nuclear waste or the lingering risk of a tragedy like Fukushima or Chernobyl in the U.S., the truth is: Nuclear power is a cure worse than the disease.»