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uranium enrichment [yə′rā·nē·əm in′rich·mənt] (nucleonics) A process carried out on uranium, in which the ratio of the abundance of the isotope uranium-235 to that of the isotope uranium-238 is increased above that found in natural uranium. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The second is that the weapon was a bunker-busting conventional uranium penetrator weapon employing enriched uranium rather than depleted uranium. We know that it takes about 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of 90 percent enriched uranium to build a gun-type weapon equivalent to the Hiroshima bomb. Stored in an obsolete nuclear reactor outside Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, the highly enriched uranium and spent reactor fuel would give an aspiring nuclear power a significant amount of the material needed to make a nuclear bomb. |
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