How to pronounce “uranium” in English

uranium-235, the rare kind that is able to undergo this reaction.

uranium that exists there's two isotopes u-235 u-238 many of the advanced reactor designs can go upwards of you know close to 50%

Uranium isn't a natural resource.

Uranium Resources-- this company would've turned a hypothetical $10,000 into $17.

Uranium is just dissolved in that molten salt.

uranium mine to the Chinese, and they pushed that impression very far.

But uranium-235, the fissile fuel needed for the bombs was really hard to get.

The uranium hexafluoride was no match for this magic material.

the uranium for either nuclear reactors or bombgrade uranium.

enriching uranium.

The uranium splits.

Whereas uranium, we mine about 60,000 tons a year-- much less.

That uranium, when it absorbs a neutron in that blue arrow symbol, it becomes U-2-- I'm sorry.

How much uranium does it take to build a nuclear bomb?

So they were refining uranium and plutonium 'cause of course there's a World War II reference in a Veritasium video.

We dig up uranium, plutonium out of the ground. And in fact, most plutonium we make from uranium, and we can talk about how to enrich uranium if we want to go down that road.

enrich that uranium to put it in a plant. And the plant's safe, but you had to enrich that uranium, but you had to enrich that uranium, and that is some of the problem.

then boosts that uranium reaction again. And so most of the energy, in fact 90% of the energy in an H-bomb, is all still from the uranium reactions themselves.

were less than the uranium, right?

purity of the uranium 235.

5% 20% 60% enriched uranium that's the

And every atom of uranium is like a bullet penetrating everything in its path--

And if the uranium was not decaying, it would have been absorbed up to here.

He started collecting uranium at abandoned mines.

And they spin uranium gas.

I think it's uranium hexafluoride gas.

It could be uranium enrichment centrifuges.

And the heavy uranium goes to the sides, and the light uranium stays in the center.

The geologists used the uranium series method to date those bones.

There's the uranium series method, which is based on the decay of uranium to different daughter isotopes.

You need highly enriched uranium or plutonium.

The type of uranium that is consumed in nuclear reactors is actually U-235, which is very rare in nature.

If you enrich uranium to about 3 to 5% or maybe 7% U-235, you've got reactor-grade uranium.

highly-enriched uranium to operate those research reactors.

was a uranium bomb.

weapons--the highly-enriched uranium--blend it down in Russia and we bought it.

in them and the uranium that they use.

Say you have a core of uranium-235, then when a neutron hits a U-235 nucleus, the nucleus splits releasing energy

wherein they shipped all of their enriched uranium stockpile out of the country to France to be transferred to fuel rods.

have Sagad which is where the uranium ore actually comes from.

facility that was enriching the uranium.

Mother Nature does not use uranium for energy.

A nuclear plant burns 30 tons of uranium a year.

So if you have a chunk of uranium-- it's radioactive-- it will actually emit electrons and alpha particles and things like that.

have waste from one gram of uranium which is like a size of a pea so this is how insane it all is and why because public opinion people afraid of

you would have all these things with uranium and plutonium and this and that, trigger mechanisms, and then all of the e equals Mc squared, and whatever,

You also have to ship the uranium, unless you have a fast breeder, and then you're even more worried, from other countries.

we use water to mine coal and uranium and to make Steam to refine and upgrade fuels at refineries or bi refineries and

And that included elements like thorium and uranium.