The toxic and radioactive uranium has been widely used as nuclear fuel in nuclear power plants and has a variety of uses with its different forms
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It recently got public attention when news broke about authorities exposing a syndicate trafficking hazardous uranium. The syndicate was found to be operating in Pasay, Mandaue, and Cagayan de Oro.in 1789 by German chemist Martin Klaproth in the mineral called pitchblende. Klaproth separated uranium out of pitchblende as acalled isotopes. A bulk of uranium found in Earth’s crust consists of two isotopes — uranium-238 accounts for 99.3%, while another isotope, uranium-235 , accounts for 0.7%.
URANIUM PELLETS. Uranium pellets cool in a tray after passing through a furnace inside the Ulba Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan, in 2007. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty, U-235 atoms easily split, which means they are fissile, while U-238 atoms undergo a reaction to become plutonium-239, a plutonium isotope, which splits more easily. When a splitting of an atom causes the splitting of another atom, a fission chain reaction happens.
Different objects like armor-piercing weapons and sailboats use DU for shielding because of its dense property. The metal has the ability to self-sharpen as it pierces through a target or medium.
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