Sentences with phrase «by uranium ore»

«Bacteria could help clean groundwater contaminated by uranium ore processing.»

Not exact matches

Knowing that uranium and thorium decay into two lead «isotopes» — which can be distinguished by their different physical properties — Soddy later measured the atomic weights of this stable element in ores rich in uranium and thorium, and found that they were 206.08 and 207.69, respectively.

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.

A new field project, led by SLAC researchers and the DOE Office of Legacy Management, is using X-ray techniques to target long - lived groundwater contamination (large dark brown area) at former uranium ore processing sites in the floodplains of the upper Colorado River basin.

The concentration of U235, expressed by percentage of weight in uranium, in a given quantity of uranium ore, uranium hexafluoride or uranium metal.

Known recoverable uranium resources in unmined ore deposits by country as of 2004 are shown in Table 1.

Australia's enviable prosperity isn't due to sunshine and breezes, it's down to iron ore, coal and a bevy of other minerals including copper and uranium of the kind being gouged out of the ground by BHP Billiton at Roxby Downs in South Australia's North (see above).

Australia's enviable prosperity isn't due to sunshine and glinting solar panels or windmills flailing in the breeze, it's down to iron ore, coal and a bevy of other minerals including copper and uranium of the kind being gouged out of the ground by BHP Billiton at Roxby Downs in South Australia's North (see above).

We should be able to get all the uranium and thorium we need to fuel nuclear power plants for centuries by using cinders and smoke as ore.