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.
Not exact matches
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.