How to Use uranium in a Sentence

uranium

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  • Allied forces shipped the uranium cubes found at the site first to Paris and later to the U.S.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
  • That is important for Niger, which has one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The amount of uranium that has changed to lead can tell us the amount of time that has passed since the zircon’s formation.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Not mentioned in the memo: the land’s valuable uranium deposits, which could be ...
    — Jonathan Nicastro, National Review, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The source uranium for those pits was scraped from the ground in mines in the Southwest, hundreds of them on Navajo Nation lands.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In exchange, the U.S. would gain access to the kingdom’s uranium, the person said.
    — Bloomberg News, Orange County Register, 2 May 2024
  • For the first time, Iran has enriched uranium to 60 percent.
    — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The target was a gold-uranium cylinder about the size of a pencil eraser.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The plants were built in the mid-1950s to provide power to a uranium enrichment plant in Southern Ohio.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Centrifuges are tall tubes that enrich a gaseous form of uranium.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • With the Vac-U-Form came the danger of skin burns, and the uranium ore supplied by Gilbert would have been a health hazard if crumbled and swallowed.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The country is the world’s seventh-biggest producer of uranium and one of the main exporters of the substance to Europe.
    — Miriam Berger, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Iran can now, in a matter of days, produce enough highly enriched uranium to make a bomb.
    — Eric Brewer, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2024
  • Tehran has since ramped up uranium enrichment at a pace not seen since its signing.
    — Tara John, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Zang and his co-authors dated the sample of the prints by assessing uranium.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Talks about a trade deal followed and Australia’s long-standing ban on uranium sales to India was dropped.
    — Ian Hall, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The traces of 84%-enriched uranium were found in the cascades Iran had connected up without informing the agency.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Many early pieces will glow eerily green when placed under a black light, a telltale sign the glass contains uranium.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Since the deal’s collapse, Iran now enriches small amounts of uranium up to 60% purity — a short step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
    — Fox News, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Since the deal’s collapse, Iran now enriches small amounts of uranium up to 60% purity – a short step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
    — Nasser Karimi, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Over the course of the last year, Iran’s push to enrich uranium has only increased in pace and sophistication.
    — Carol E. B. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
  • If anything went wrong at launch, roughly 700 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium would suddenly fall from the sky.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 July 2024
  • From less than $10/lb uranium rose to $40/lb, driven by a flood of orders for nuclear reactors to combat the oil squeeze.
    — Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Its total stockpile of enriched uranium has grown to 3,941 kilograms, the report said.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The bill also has $700 million to produce the uranium fuel in the United States that many advanced reactors need.
    — Jennifer McDermott, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Weapon-grade uranium is considered to have been enriched above 90%.
    — Tara John, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Israel says Tehran has no interest in returning to the confines of the 2015 deal, and Iran is two months away from being able to produce weapons-grade uranium.
    — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
  • More than 90% of the uranium that fuels U.S. power plants is imported, and Russia is the third-largest supplier.
    — John Barrasso, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Thorium is about three times more abundant than uranium on Earth.
    — James Conca, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • And Iran could need more than a year—or at least several months, by some estimates—to convert its uranium into a usable weapon.
    — Uri Friedman, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024

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