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

Ancient limestones reveal how volcanic carbon once suffocated the oceans - offering a stark warning as modern oxygen levels continue to drop.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The Company mined 638,700 pounds of uranium from its Pinyon Plain mine in Arizona during the 2nd quarter of 2025, cementing its place a ...

Iran has enriched large quantities of uranium to 60%. It’s easier to go from an enrichment of 60% to 90% cent than to get to that initial 60%. That’s because there’s less and less uranium-238 to ...

Oklo, Hexium, and TerraPower have partnered to revive laser uranium enrichment and boost U.S. HALEU production for advanced ...

When an atom breaks apart, it gives out energy and more neutrons, which can then split other atoms. Get enough atoms splitting and you have the chain reaction needed for a bomb blast ...