August 20th, 2008
Depleted uranium
Depleted uranium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Depleted uranium DU is uranium primarily composed of the isotope uranium-238 U-238. Natural uranium is about 99.27 percent U-238, 0.72 percent U-235, and 0.0055 percent U-234. Because U-235 is used for fission in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons, natural uranium is enriched in U-235 by separating the isotopes by [...]
