The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory set is referred to as the "world's most dangerous toy," according to the Interesting Engineering portal. The set has just been put up for auction ...

A breeder reactor, like the one scientists in Idaho were trying to build, converts uranium-238’s “nonfissionable material into fissionable material more rapidly than the nuclear fuel is ...

In its natural state, it consists of three isotopes (U-234, U-235 and U-238). Other isotopes that cannot be found in natural uranium are U-232, U-233, U-236 and U-237. The table below shows the ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...

Nuclear reactors that use heavy water can employ a form of uranium commonly found in nature (U-238) rather than requiring so-called enriched uranium, which contains a higher percentage of easily ...

The proposed solution to this problem is to instead use fast-neutron reactors, which “breed” non-fissile uranium-238 into plutonium-239 and plutonium-240, which can then be used as fresh fuel.

For example, about 1.5 percent of a quantity of Uranium 238 will decay to lead every 100 million years. By measuring the ratio of lead to uranium in a rock sample, its age can be determined.

particularly Uranium-235 and Uranium-238,” according to Zulikha Marie Conales, a National Bureau of Investigation agent. The depleted uranium was detected in 80 kg of metal blocks, 6 kg of ...

The local National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) clarified that the recent seizure of uranium-containing materials, initially reported to have occurred in Manda ...