proportion of uranium-236, and much smaller amounts of other isotopes of uranium such as uranium-234, uranium-233, and uranium-232. Uranium-239 is usually...
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Uranium-232 (232 U ) is an isotope of uranium. It has a half-life of around 69 years and is a side product in the thorium cycle. It has been cited as...
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Uranium-233 (233U or U-233) is a fissile isotope of uranium that is bred from thorium-232 as part of the thorium fuel cycle. Uranium-233 was investigated...
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natural uranium are uranium-238 (which has 146 neutrons and accounts for over 99% of uranium on Earth) and uranium-235 (which has 143 neutrons). Uranium has...
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Thorium fuel cycle (section Uranium-232 contamination)
an isotope of thorium, 232 Th , as the fertile material. In the reactor, 232 Th is transmuted into the fissile artificial uranium isotope 233 U which is...
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comparable proportion of uranium-236, and much smaller amounts of other isotopes of uranium such as uranium-234, uranium-233, and uranium-232. In a fission nuclear...
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quantities as intermediate products in the decay chains of uranium-238, uranium-235, and thorium-232. Some minerals that contain thorium include apatite, sphene...
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Uranium-234 (234U or U-234) is an isotope of uranium. In natural uranium and in uranium ore, 234U occurs as an indirect decay product of uranium-238, but...
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the uranium-232 made the material difficult to handle, and the uranium-232 led to possible pre-detonation. Separating the uranium-232 from the uranium-233...
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quantity by the nuclear fuel cycle, and the longer-lived uranium-235, uranium-238, and thorium-232 occur in nature.) Unlike plutonium, minor actinides, fission...
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