uranium

My grandfather told me that coal is like the liver, and uranium is both the heart and lungs of Mother Earth.

The unveiling of a new uranium enrichment facility this month could also have been part of an attempt to build Kim Jong-eun's power base.

Earlier this month it claimed to be in the final stages of enriching uranium, which would give it a second way to make nuclear devices.

Iran has also pledged to ship some low-enriched uranium out of the country to prove it is not trying to make nuclear weapons.

The matter that the Curies had discovered was radium. It looked like ordinary salt, but was one million times more radioactive than uranium.

Earlier, statements in the Iranian media suggested that Iran is not ready to send its enriched uranium abroad.

Just last week, China jacked up estimates for how much uranium it will need for nuclear power plants (see story on page 27).

It was not immediately clear how much uranium Iran would need to send abroad.

Three weeks ago it revealed the existence of a uranium enrichment plant, potentially giving it a new pathway to make nuclear bomb material.

The UN nuclear watchdog says in a report that Iran has doubled the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges it has in an underground bunker.

He says Iran has no intention of acquiring an atomic bomb; it is only making low-enriched uranium to fuel nuclear-power stations.

Washington says it believes that North Korea is operating at least one more uranium enrichment site than Pyongyang has so far acknowledged.

In any case, western intelligence experts believed the plant was only being constructed and had not yet been used to enrich uranium.

The U. S. fear was that Russia would flood the U. S. market with cheap uranium, but the duty is supposed to be phased out beginning in 2011.

I should say the uranium-lead dating has been range for quite a while. But there have been a quite refine them.

But Iran's chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, said he would not discuss suspending uranium enrichment.

The White House says Ukraine is getting rid of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, enough to build several nuclear weapons.

Syria said the uranium could have come from munitions dropped by Israeli jets.

"You can look at it like a couple of very large uranium mines, " he said of the fissile material that would result from the program.

Put to a Canadian, such talk may elicit reminders of that country's pivotal influence as a potash, tar sands and uranium producer.

Police said they had confiscated computers from the Farc rebel group, showing they were trying to obtain uranium in Europe.

The multinational talks took place in Switzerland. Iran ruled out freezing uranium enrichment, but agreed to resume talks in two weeks.

Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment, prompting Russia and France to call on Tehran to halt its work.

The big question is how much of that salt is still mixed with water and how much now forms a crust on the uranium fuel rods.

Inevitably India will now be able to direct more of its scarcer domestic uranium to its military needs.

He said it was possible Myanmar was bartering uranium ore for conventional weapons, maybe even missile parts or technology.

Zero-valent iron is cheap and easy to get, and can effectively remove heavy metals including uranium in groundwater.

Australia has no nuclear reactors, none under construction, none planned, nor any nuclear industry whatsoever beyond uranium mining.

Yes, they said, uranium fuel rods in the tsunami-hit facility's reactors might have been damaged after cooling systems failed.

Iran says its nuclear ambitions are peaceful and yet will not accept offers of low-enriched uranium processed by Russia and France.

Nuclear power is produced by harnessing the heat produced by the splitting of atoms inside uranium - a process known as fission.

In the process, plutonium is split from the spent uranium and fed into a reactor to produce more power--or used to make nuclear weapons.

The United States has said it would not negotiate directly with the Iranians until they suspend uranium enrichment.

Uranium reserves than any other country: the United States, followed by Australia, South Africa, Canada.

Iran says its uranium enrichment program is to make fuel for nuclear energy. But enriched uranium could also be used for bombs.

The aim of enrichment is to extract the rare form of uranium from the ore that miners routinely dig out of the ground.

One of the methods to set free the energy locked in such substances as uranium is known as nuclear fission.

A writer has found a small deposit of manganese ore and rock specimens flecked with uranium or stained green by copper.

The enriched uranium was used in a Soviet-designed research reactor near Tashkent, described as the largest of its kind in Central Asia.

Iran agreed to suspend enrichment of uranium in its nuclear program at least until the end of July.

Evaporation in the cooling pools used for spent fuel rods led to the detonation of stored weapons-grade plutonium and uranium.

But at times, recycled Soviet bomb cores have made up the majority of the American market for low-enriched uranium fuel.

Meanwhile, Mr. Kan said he expressed concerns during the summit about North Korea's uranium enrichment.

Arrangements are being made for nuclear experts to meet to begin tackling the highly enriched uranium issue, he said.

Such a concentration of uranium means the lifetime cancer risk in the village was more than 153 times higher than in the normal population.

And Iran's foreign minister threatens to resume Teheran's uranium enrichment program if talks with European Nations in London fail.

Iran says it has informed the U. N. nuclear agency it plans to further enrich its uranium in defiance of international demands that it stop.

None of the xenon isotopes we measured were the direct result of uranium fission.

If the Iranians transfer the low-enriched uranium to Russia for further processing, it would be a significant confidence-building measure.

Uranium generates gigantic amounts of energy in a very small space, which wind and solar combined cannot come close to.

She says the fact that Iran sought to hide the construction of a second uranium enrichment plant calls Tehran's claims into question.

be remembered as one of the greatest composers Madame Curie will always be remembered as the discoverer of uranium.

Schulte said the new report also revealed that IAEA inspectors had found new traces of highly enriched uranium.

Tests on ground water show that levels of uranium around the plants are up to 15 times the World Health Organisation's maximum safe limits.

In January, Iran broke IAEA seals that barred access at a uranium enrichment plant and said it would resume nuclear fuel research.

One problem China will face, even if it develops and employs more-advanced reactors, is the lack of enough uranium at home to supply them.

Now as you recall from the uranium 238 slide, and I think the next slide will show it.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says his country is ready to play an intermediary role in a uranium exchange program.

It is not clear, however, how far the Americans will press the point if the North Koreans continue to deny enriching uranium.

The IAEA admonished Tehran and insisted on snap inspections and a halt to its uranium enrichment program.

Then there is the suspected uranium-enrichment project: tricky to inspect, since the Americans are not even sure where it might be.

The European Union is to stop importing Iranian oil in July, to put pressure on Tehran to stop enriching uranium.

The announcement comes a day after the U. N. Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iran who refusing to stop enriching uranium.

Its centrifuge machines could produce enough bomb-usable uranium for about a weapon a year.

North Korea's recently disclosed uranium enrichment program will be on the agenda of future discussions, he said.

Detection of uranium is needed to determine the accurate age of this star.

N. draft nuclear deal to exchange close to 70% of it stockpile of low-grade uranium for more highly enriched uranium from France and Russia.

But he said they could be readily converted to produce highly-enriched uranium bomb fuel.

Fat chance. Having ignored two resolutions ordering it to stop enriching uranium, Iran now faces the prospect of a third.

On Wednesday, Tehran confirmed it had installed new equipment to step up uranium enrichment work.

So Iran backtracked, insisting its low-enriched uranium could only be relinquished at the moment the fuel assemblies were provided.

Those two stockpiles give it enough enriched uranium to make up to six nuclear warheads, should it choose to do so.

This, it was claimed, would be a true test of whether Iran was only interested in enriching uranium for civilian use.

What does Iran have in mind as it strives to acquire enough highly enriched uranium to make a few nuclear weapons?

During an era when plutonium for weapons was considered essential and uranium supplies were thought to be scarce, breeders were a hot item.

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, welcomed the fuel swap agreement, but said it would not prevent Iran enriching uranium.

The October fuel deal was a gamble: Iran called it an acceptance of its "right" to uranium enrichment.

The general remark is introduced on environmental improvement of decommissioning uranium tailings impoundments at home and abroad.

It worries it would not get the uranium back if it sends it overseas.

America is already blending down some of its highly enriched uranium to make it available for civilian use.

It came after the U. N. Security Council passed a resolution toughening sanctions on Iran over its refusal to stop enriching uranium.

It looked like ordinary salt, but was one million times more radioactive than uranium.

Radiometric techniques are not always appropriate to search for uranium deposits.

On the table, a plan is to send much of Iran's enriched uranium to France and Russia to be refined for use in a research reactor in Tehran.

The conductivity imparted to the air can be ascribed to ionization produced by the rays emitted by the uranium compounds.

The Bush administration made direct talks between the US and Iran conditional on Iranian suspension of its uranium enrichment programme.

Special containers with targets (uranium rods in aluminum coats) are placed on the bottom of the reactor filled with water for 8 meters.

U. S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill says Pyongyang continues to insist it has not engaged in uranium enrichment activities.

But uranium prices remain well above the level seen for most of the past three decades, buoyed by an expectation of growth in nuclear power.

Iran announced that it had enriched uranium on a small scale for the first time.

Pyongyang recently revealed the existence of a uranium-based nuclear programme, which has raised further concerns.

With small domestic production capacity of about 2m pounds a year, the country is moving aggressively to secure uranium supplies.

The DoE is selling the nuclear fuel to help pay for a clean-up of "contaminated uranium inventories" .

Another of the authors supplied Marie with the uranium with which she experimented.

The finished uranium would be shipped back to Iran, where it would be used to fuel a research reactor.

Niger's uranium production is still going up; 90 new exploration permits have been handed out in the past year.

Not fission, whereby uranium and plutonium breaks up in pieces, but fusion.

The children had massive levels of uranium in their bodies, in one case more than 60 times the maximum safe limit.

The long-term challenge is dealing with the actinides, materials created when uranium absorbs a neutron but refuses to split apart.

November's violence was also preceded by the revelation of a North Korean uranium enrichment program.

But he warned Iran if it does not stop enriching uranium, it will be isolated and suffer economic hardship.

Thermodynamic study of the behavior of uranium and plutonium during thermal treatment under reducing and oxidizing modes.

He died a year before his German friend Otto Hahn discovered the fission of the uranium nucleus in 1938.

According to the theory, we found a ton of first-situ leachable sandstone-type uranium deposit.

Iran ultimately rejected the offer and has declared that it is now enriching its own uranium fuel supplies.

Iran says talks are needed on the nuclear deal and that wants to import atomic fuel rather than send its own uranium abroad for processing.

Fuel assembly is a cylindrical pellets made of uranium dioxide fuel rods, and then assembled according to a certain order.

The Merrill Lynch Uranium Equity index is at its lowest level for almost three years, and has halved from its peak.

Mr Lockwood believes Japan has been a "huge wake-up call" but "most countries will realise uranium is the energy of the future" .

Q: Today, the DPRK reportedly claimed that it had made significant progress in developing uranium enrichment technology. How do you comment?

The test results for children born and living in areas around the state's power stations show high levels of uranium in their bodies.

It has also announced plans to make more plutonium-based bombs, and to push ahead with a uranium-enrichment programme.

Some of these neutrons will be absorbed by other uranium nuclei, which will split in turn, resulting in yet more neutrons.

Then she found that pitchblende was more radioactive than uranium by itself.

Ventilation has been proved to be a main method to eliminate radon and its daughters in uranium mines.

It can measure the gamma rays that the uranium emits when it spontaneously breaks up in pieces and energy is released we call that fission.

The U. S. statement came after diplomats in Vienna said Iran had resumed construction and assembly of uranium-enriching centrifuges.

The shipboard is waiting for arrival of a producer who will be willing to make a movie about an abandoned uranium mine on Mars.

This uranium was never intended for weapons; it was fuel for a small nuclear reactor that scientists use for research.

In 1967, Iran in Tehran, the United States help build nuclear reactors, highly enriched uranium provided by the United States as a fuel.

It's a striking irony that to extract its plentiful uranium, Namibia must use quantities of a very scarce resource: water.

The tungsten heavy alloys are ideal materials used for kinetic energy penetrators in place of depleted uranium alloys.

The technology enables the re-use of irradiated fuel and is able to boost the usage rate of uranium materials at nuclear plants by 60 folds.

They put it there by making a public announcement that they had concluded the first experimental phase of a uranium-enrichment program.

Iran has become even noisier about its desire to go on enriching uranium.

The mechanism of extraction of uranium (VI) from nitric acid solutions with a novel extractive pyridines kerosene was investigated.

Threshold detector calibration by utilization of a natural uranium converter for fast neutron flux measurements.

North Korea claims it has installed 2, 000 centrifuges to enrich uranium, many more than the west knew it had.

but was one million times more radioactive than uranium.

Dead oil in a semi-oxidized state seems capable of effecting the direct precipitation of uranium from solute .

Obama described the site, apparently a second Iranian facility for enriching uranium, as a "disturbing revelation" .

To protect the light-water reactor fuel supply, with thousands of centrifuge uranium enrichment plant is a modern operation.

Key to the deal was temporarily reducing the uranium stocks Iran has acquired in defiance of a string of UN Security Council resolutions.

Reactivity worth of the thermal column of a MTR type swimming pool research reactor using low enriched uranium fuel.

But Iran has objected to France being part of the deal and may also be reluctant to send its uranium abroad.

Over 2000 tons of plutonium and highly enriched uranium exist in dozens of countries with a variety of peaceful as well as military uses.

They want Tehran to be fully open about its nuclear program - including uranium enrichment and possible weapons development.

The U. S. nuclear industry considers it more financially sensible to produce fuel with virgin uranium and to store spent uranium.

Internationalizing the nuclear fuel cycle, especially through internationally managed uranium enrichment facilities.

Mexico, the United States and Canada pledged to work together to convert Mexico's research reactor to low enriched uranium.

A few elements , among them uranium and thorium , spontaneously disintegrate into lighter elements by chances .

The report notes that the basis for a self-sufficient nuclear program is indigenous uranium ore that can be mined and converted into fuel.

It also fits part of a broader strategy to industrialise the economy, with plans to develop the diamond and uranium sectors.

They occur as a result of nuclear fission, when a Uranium atom splits into lighter elements and releases energy.

Its latest threat, to step up tenfold its potentially weapons-usable enrichment of uranium, may be a mostly empty one for now (see article).

Enriched uranium can also be used for nuclear weapons production, which is why the industry is so highly regulated.

Because uranium-235 is quite rare, making up less than 1% of natural uranium, it has to be enriched until the fuel contains 2-3%.

At an ATW treatment center, the uranium and some other less-hazardous material would be separated from the rest of the waste.

Fault structure can be both recharge area and discharge area of groundwater for the formation of in-situ sandstone-type uranium deposit.

This paper has summarized prospecting criteria of such uranium deposit as well.

On Thursday, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, demanded that world powers recognize an Iranian right to enrich uranium.

Iran pooh-poohs sanctions, claiming even new ones won't make it give up its "right" to enrich uranium.

At the scene of the fire, toxic substances such as benzene, lead, uranium and asbestos can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin.

If you taking about the radiation like an element Uranium, yeah, that's dangerous.

Iran has said it was seeking enriched uranium for a civilian nuclear-powered electricity program.

Iran has come under more international pressure to respond to a proposal that it send uranium abroad for enrichment.

The feasibility study of using low enriched uranium for conversion of Russian plutonium production reactors.

Under it, Iran would give up most of its uranium stockpile in return for enriched fuel for a medical reactor.

But in terms of the different types of reactors the fuel form is the same uranium dioxide.

Radon gas in the air is present worldwide, its concentration depending on the highly variable uranium content of the soil.

However , the actual weight of uranium or plutonium in such a weapon is greater than this amount .

South Korean security officials say it is significant that the attack followed the unveiling of an undisclosed uranium enrichment facility.

The hydrogen content has little change in a dry environment. Hydrogen in plated uranium has a tendency of diffusion to the outside.

According to the report, Damascus says the uranium must have come from the Israeli missiles dropped on the building.

The Americans say North Korea must account for the alleged uranium-enrichment programme that led to the current crisis.

S. He used it to promote zionism, pacifism, in his secret 1939 letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the construction of a uranium bomb.

When enriched to a high degree, uranium can be used as weapons-grade material. Plutonium can be used in atomic bombs.

Iran says it is installing newer and faster centrifuges at its nuclear plants, with the goal of speeding up the uranium enrichment process.

Paleo-channel sandstone type uranium deposit is one of major economic benefit type at present.

Yellow-cake uranium could be nosed as far away as Niger, and Saddam Hussein's connections to al-Qaeda were as odorous as a Texas feedlot.

The composition of surface layer of uranium and treated uranium have been analyzed respectively by Auger Electron Spectroscopy ( AES ).

But when coal is burned into fly ash, uranium and thorium are concentrated at up to 10 times their original levels.

Now when you look at uranium cross section as a function of energy and that's this neutron energy from EVs to MEV levels.

The concept of regional uranium enrichment has been discussed by Davidson, Saum and Link .

However, some of the minerals contain xenon isotopes unlike those usually produced by radioactive decay of uranium.

The objection to the placer origin have centred around the softness of uranium compounds.

Cash payments, vast medical facilities, a nuclear reactor, uranium mining, and military equipment were part of the package, said Saif.

The leaching technique for uranium ore is characterized by low consumption of energy and reagents, simple flow sheet and high productivity.

REQUIREMENTS FOR REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING OF URANYL NITRATE SOLUTIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF URANIUM CONCENTRATION.

IAEA said Friday that Iran had enriched uranium and persists with related activities in its unclear program in defiance of the UN.

European Union foreign ministers have agreed to implement U. N. sanctions against Iran for refusing to stop uranium enrichment.

Iran, he said, had achieved its aim of running 3, 000 uranium-enriching centrifuges and would add a new cascade every week.

Iran has already begun moving part of its uranium- enrichment capacity to Fordow, a facility buried deep within a mountain near Qom.

Compared to uranium, thorium is far more abundant as well as much more energy-dense.

Results Show the geology feature, main metallogenic models and its evolution connections of sandstone type uranium deposit in all the world.

The United States and its European allies fear Iran wants to enrich uranium to build an atomic weapon.

It has important significance to improving the leaching rate of uranium and the recovery rate of resources.

Experts had long suspected that the North also had a covert uranium enrichment program, but Pyongyang denied it.

Ukraine said it would get rid of its highly enriched uranium, left over from dismantled Soviet-era weapons.

Both uranium and plutonium are radioactive, and their activity consists in the emission of what are called "alpha particles"

Sceptics say this was a prize Ukraine won from America for giving up its supply of enriched uranium.

Concept of erbium doped Uranium oxide fuel cycle in light water reactors.

It works by cooking the uranium and its daughter products, called transuranics, with a focused proton beam.

It is uranium, which until Friday was a little-noticed pocket of the commodities markets.

To improve the flow rate of well is of importance to in-situ leaching of uranium in low permeable deposits.

In fact, hopes about China's rising demand is helping make uranium into a commodity traded by hedge funds and other investors.

The project to fill a number of gaps in uranium exploration, research results reached the international advanced level.

The research indicated that the two geophysical methods could acquire better effect in exploration of sandstone uranium deposit.

Or not. Peak Uranium is expected before 2040 so they will be screwed then, stuck with an obsolete technology and rising uranium prices.

But now we've learned something different and quite a surprising using a technique called uranium-lead dating.

Until now Iran has defied successive sanctions-bearing UN Security Council resolutions calling on it to suspend its uranium enrichment.

One focus was to prospect the lunar surface for natural resources, including uranium for nuclear fuel.

Fissile materials used in nuclear bomb production include highly enriched uranium and plutonium.

The influencing factors of the uncertainty of measurement result for uranium in uranium ore by volumetric analysis method were discussed.

Limited global supplies of the nuclear feedstock have inspired suggestions that Beijing should also establish a stand-by uranium reserve.

'We're overdoing it, ' Mr. Brynjolfsson concluded to a colleague, saying his fund should consider buying uranium.

The disaster knocked out the power station's cooling systems, causing uranium fuel to overheat and expel combustible gasses and radiation.

In a so-called "nuclear swap deal" Iran would export its low-enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment and conversion into fuel rods.

Statistical results show that medium and fine-grained sandstones are the most favorable rock types for uranium mineralization.

The trick is to get the dissolved uranium out of the resulting solution.

Nuclear fission is initiated when the nucleus of a uranium atom is hit by a neutron and split into two halves .

Xia Huang said China would press on with "projects of transformation" in a destitute country with valuable reserves of oil and uranium.

And the prospecting direction for uranium in Meso-Cenozoic basins of northern China has been proposed through a preliminary analysis.

Potential to approach the long-life core in light water reactor with uranium oxide fuel.

On Friday, the Financial Times reported that "Iran has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb" .

The plan was to exploit the extraordinary purity of laser light to selectively excite uranium's rare form.

Under German sniper fire, Furman and his team also seized 31 tons of uranium ore in Belgium that was eventually shipped to the U. S.

Q: Did the meeting this afternoon make any reference to the widely concerned issue of highly enriched uranium?

Nuclear energy - Determination of carbon compounds and fluorides in uranium hexafluoride infrared spectrometry.

We cannot have the denuclearization of North Korea if highly enriched uranium is still out there.

The news that North Korea had built a sophisticated uranium enrichment plant was received with incredulity by Chinese media outlets.

Niger has uranium and is a potential big oil exporter as well.

Western governments are seeking a Security Council resolution that would oblige Iran to halt all uranium enrichment work, or face sanctions.

Mongolia should begin uranium mining in about 2013, he said.

Last year it emerged it was developing another nuclear strand, with the unveiling of a state-of-the art uranium enrichment plant.

Characterization of secondary products of uranium-aluminum material test reactor fuel element corrosion in repository-relevant brine.

The physicist worked as a technical assistant experimenting with nuclear reactors, using uranium.

The expenses for decommissioning uranium mines shall be covered by the State financial budget.

The report says the court in Guangdong province will continue the trial and not reach a verdict until the uranium is found.

Mrs. Clinton also linked a diplomatic relationship to the end of North Korea's uranium enrichment program and human rights atrocities.

The temporary ban was meant to slow a flurry of new uranium mining operations planned near the Grand Canyon.

Syria denied the site was a nuclear reactor, and alleged the traces of uranium found there came from Israeli missiles.

The application research of the method in known profile shows that the method is effective in searching uranium deposit.

When one of these neutrons hits another uranium atom, that atom can split, generating more neutrons and so on.

If you talking about the radiation, like the element Uranium, yeah that's dangerous.

The Bush administration also wants to know the scale of the programme to enrich uranium to which North Korea admitted in 2002.

That uranium destined for a dirty bomb could do the same ranks among the west's security nightmares.

Comprehensive analysis shows that it has good potential for uranium metallization. It is the key targe layer in southern Songliao basin.

But its uranium reserves, including mines in Xinjiang province near the Kazakh frontier, are declining.

The article says that 28 applications for new uranium mills have come to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the last 10 months.

Remediating the uranium contaminated environment with microorganisms is considered as a promising technology.

Today, most of the uranium used in American reactors comes from Canada, Australia, and Russia.

The worst nuclear accident in the history of Japan happened in a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokaimura, northeast of Tokyo.

Iran ultimately rejected the offer, and has since declared that it is enriching its own uranium fuel supplies.

If you are talking about radiation like the element Uranium, yeah, that's dangerous.

At the weekend Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, president, announced moves that would take the country a step closer to weapons-grade uranium.

Uranium in groundwater occurred over a wide range of pH and redox conditions because of its association with other compounds.

Moscow did however back a fourth round of sanctions against Tehran, which called for Iran to stop uranium enrichment.

moreover , heat energy generated during decay of heavy elements like uranium at the centre of the earth triggers tectonic movement.

Research of the neotectonic activities forms an important part of the research of the uranium mineralization in the Yili basin.