More common than gold, uranium is abundant on Earth. But less than one percent of the naturally occurring element is useful ...

Destroying centrifuges is more disruptive than damaging anything else,” James Walker, CEO of Nano Nuclear Energy, said to the ...

UF₆ is unique among uranium compounds for its volatility, which is why all that horrible chemistry above it is required. Step 6: It's a bitch to enrich To understand why, you have to know a bit about ...

Israel targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities at Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow, killing several scientists. These sites are crucial ...

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

When most people hear the word uranium, they think of mushroom clouds, Cold War standoffs or the glowing green rods from ...

Secretive North Korea gave a rare look inside one of its uranium facilities after Kim Jong Un’s visit last year ...

A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology and led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman ...

A five-dimensional model has successfully predicted the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, offering new insights into ...

New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that ...

Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C., adds that the two major kinds of uranium isotopes found at this type of facility "are at the ...