Sentences with phrase «uranium metal»

The agency says the Hanford site in southeastern Washington, which manufactured more than 20 million pieces of uranium metal fuel for nine nuclear reactors near the Columbia River, is its biggest cleanup challenge.

In 1841, Eugène - Melchior Péligot, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Central School of Arts and Manufactures) in Paris, isolated the first sample of uranium metal by heating uranium tetrachloride with potassium.

Depleted uranium metal can be used as shielding, for example.

Older versions, known as Magnox reactors, use uranium metal as fuel, while newer ones use enriched uranium oxide.

Uranium metal enriched with Uranium - 235 is used in heavy water reactors while light water reactors use low enriched Uranium.

By the end of the war, all that the projects had produced was a piece of uranium metal the size of a postage stamp, still unenriched with its light form.

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

Uranium - 235 is a naturally occurring isotope of Uranium metal.