Sentences with phrase «nature than uranium»

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 electricity.

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But it seems everyone from James Clapper, to Louis Lerner, to Eric Holder, Susan Rice etc. etc. seems to be constantly contradicted or exposed as being less than truthful, whether it's IRS Targeting, tapping journalists, blaming Benghazi on a video, the existence of WMDs, a search for yellow - cake Uranium, who ordered Fast and Furious putting automatic guns in the hands of Mexican drug - lords, drone strikes, or... the nature of PRISM.
Most elements heavier than uranium are highly unstable and are hard to find in nature.
Most elements heavier than uranium, which has 92 protons, do not exist stably in nature and must
In fact, most of the mining is done via remote control, because the McArthur River deposit is so rich: more than 20 percent triuranium octaoxide (U3O8), the most common form of uranium found in nature, according to Cameco.
The thorium mined at Baley is likely to have a different set of decay products than the uranium minerals (which typically contain a mix of uranium isotopes called «natural uranium» - or «u-nat» - a mixture of the isotopes uranium - 235, uranium - 234 and uranium - 238 commonly found in nature) mined at US, German and South Africa sites.
There is over 100x more U238 in nature than U235, so the time that 200 years of uranium can last humanity turns into 20,000.
Elements heavier than uranium (with 92 protons), are not produced in nature but are made by scientists in labs.
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