More common than gold, uranium is abundant on Earth. But less than one percent of the naturally occurring element is useful ...

Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, killing several Iranian nuclear scientists. The facilities are heavily fortified and largely ...

(All elements have isotopes, but only a few are stable.) Uranium-235—so named because it has 235 total protons and neutrons—is the only uranium isotope suitable for making a bomb [1] (see Table 1).

Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev says that the first two new 600 MW units at the second phase of the Kola Nuclear ...

When Israeli aircraft recently struck a uranium-enrichment complex in the nation, Iran could have been days away from ...

When an atom breaks apart, it gives out energy and more neutrons, which can then split other atoms. Get enough atoms splitting and you have the chain reaction needed for a bomb blast ...

How did Iran build a bomb, what are enriched uranium and plutonium, what role do centrifuges play, and how would the ...

A machine learning approach leverages nuclear microreactor symmetry to reduce training time when modeling power output ...

When we dig uranium out of the ground, 99.27 per cent of it is uranium-238, which has 92 protons and 146 neutrons. Only 0.72 per cent of it is uranium-235 with 92 protons and 143 neutrons (the ...