Enrichment centrifuge separates U-235 from natural uranium for nuclear power and weapons, using centrifugal force in stages.

July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

Since the first nuclear explosion in history during the Trinity test in 1945, nuclear weapons have significantly shaped the ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defines uranium as a Low Specific Activity material. In its natural state, it consists of three isotopes (U-234, U-235 and U-238). Other isotopes that ...

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 ...

Depleted uranium contains less of the isotopes U-235 and U-234. The specific activity of depleted uranium (5.0E-7 Ci/g) is less than that of natural uranium (7.1E-7 Ci/g). Certain uranium compounds, ...

There, they operate centrifuges spinning at supersonic speeds to separate the uranium-235 isotopes necessary to sustain nuclear fission. Because the same process can also produce material for ...

One route to producing fission fuel for nuclear weapons is enriching uranium - separating the highly fissionable uranium-235 isotope that constitutes approximately 0.72% of natural uranium from the ...