News tagged with isotopes of uranium
Engineers develop technique to help combat nuclear proliferation
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev engineers have developed a technique to "denature" plutonium created in large nuclear reactors, making it unsuitable for use in nuclear arms. By adding Americium (Am 241), a form of the ...
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Fungi have a hand in depleted uranium's environmental fate
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May 05, 2008 |
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Fungi may have an important role to play in the fate of potentially dangerous depleted uranium left in the environment after recent war campaigns, according to a new report in the May 6th issue of Current Biology, a publ ...
Using waste to recover waste uranium
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers at Birmingham University have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines. The same technology ...
Patience pays off with methanol for uranium bioremediation
Feb 23, 2009 |
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The legacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy development has left ground water and sediment at dozens of sites across the United States and many more around the world contaminated with uranium. The uranium is transported ...
New method for manufacturing radio isotopes
Sep 11, 2008 |
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Thanks to a newly-developed technology at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, global shortages of radio isotopes for cancer diagnosis could be a thing of the past. This is the message from Prof. Bert Wolterbeek ...
Uranium isotope ratios are not invariant, researchers show
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Oct 23, 2007 |
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For years, the ratio of uranium’s two long-lived isotopes, U-235 and U-238, has been considered invariant, despite measurements made in the mid-1970s that hinted otherwise. Now, with improved precision from state-of-the-art ...
Lack of fuel may limit US nuclear power expansion
Mar 20, 2007 |
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Limited supplies of fuel for nuclear power plants may thwart the renewed and growing interest in nuclear energy in the United States and other nations, says an MIT expert on the industry.
A Pocketful of Uranium: Construction of a Selective Uranium-Binding Protein
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The use of uranium as a nuclear fuel and in weapons increases the risk that people may come into contact with it, and the storage of radioactive uranium waste poses an additional environmental risk. However, ...
Test to Reveal Levels of Depleted Uranium in Army Personnel
Mar 05, 2007 |
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A test recently used by the UK government’s Independent Depleted Uranium Oversight Board to detect exposure to UK troops by depleted uranium (DU) during the 1991 Gulf Conflict was developed by a team led by a University of ...
A top supplier of medical isotopes closed through 2009
Jul 08, 2009 |
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An aging Canadian nuclear reactor responsible for production of one-third of the isotopes used in medical radiation treatment around the world will be out of service through at least the end of 2009, authorities said Wednesday.
Researchers Identify Problems in the Uranium Bioremediation Avenue
Mar 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Toxic uranium is often found in soil and groundwater in places where uranium was either mined or enriched to make nuclear fuel and weapons. Uranium contamination, which is a threat to wildlife ...
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