The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

For the first time in U.S. history, a commercial nuclear reactor tests fuel enriched above the traditional 5 per cent ...

In its natural state, it consists of three isotopes (U-234, U-235 and U-238). Other isotopes that cannot be found in natural uranium are U-232, U-233, U-236 and U-237. The table below shows the ...

Heisenberg noted that they could use pure uranium 235, a rare isotope, as an explosive. In the summer of 1940, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, a younger colleague and friend of Heisenberg's ...