Uranium's use in nuclear weapons is, understandably, the source of the widespread phobia felt by most for uranium. However, it is only weakly radioactive — the half-life of 238 U is 4.468 × 10 ...

Uranium is the primary fuel for nuclear reactors and must be managed properly, in a safe and sustainable manner. Recent annual production of natural uranium world-wide has been between 55,000 and ...

It is so dense a small 10-centimetre cube would weigh 20 kilograms. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defines uranium as a Low Specific Activity material. In its natural state, it consists ...

ON bombarding uranium with neutrons, Fermi and collaborators 1 found that at least four radioactive substances were produced, to two of which atomic numbers larger than 92 were ascribed.