The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

Enrichment centrifuge separates U-235 from natural uranium for nuclear power and weapons, using centrifugal force in stages.

Heisenberg noted that they could use pure uranium 235, a rare isotope, as an explosive. In the summer of 1940, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, a younger colleague and friend of Heisenberg's ...

“The track record for this industry is abysmal,” said Taylor McKinnon, who is the southwest director of the environmental ...

Low-enriched uranium is composed of around 5% uranium-235, the fissile isotope that splits to power nuclear reactors. In the long term, the government will need more highly enriched uranium ...

Ali Larijani, an adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said while Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons, an attack would leave ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defines uranium as a Low Specific Activity material. In its natural state, it consists of three isotopes (U-234, U-235 and U-238). Other isotopes that ...

The former, Germany’s FRM-II, relies on fuel enriched to over 95% uranium-235 to generate its dense neutron flux. Such fuel, however, is widely seen as a potential nuclear proliferation risk and ...

There, they operate centrifuges spinning at supersonic speeds to separate the uranium-235 isotopes necessary to sustain nuclear fission. Because the same process can also produce material for ...