Essays Tagged: "Depleted uranium"

Nuclear Retort--A Classical Argument

enough electricity to circulate throughout any given region. This holds true until the resource is depleted. Uranium is not renewable, meaning once it's gone, it's gone. The waste uranium leaves behi ...

(2 pages) 26 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

The separation process of uranium from the compound uranium hexafluoride

time, unlike gaseous diffusion plants.Low-enriched uranium (LEU), Highly enriched uranium (HEU) and Depleted uranium (DU) are three types of products of uranium enrichment. Low-enriched uranium is use ... d 90%. However for criticality experiments, enrichment of uranium to over 97% has been accomplished.Depleted uranium is the remaining U-238 isotope after enrichment. Since only a small proportion of t ...

(3 pages) 2481 0 0.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry