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  2. Uranium ore - Wikipedia

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    Uranium is a silvery-gray, weakly radioactive metallic chemical element.It has the chemical symbol U and atomic number 92. The most common isotopes in natural uranium are 238 U (99.274%) and 235 U (0.711%).

  3. Uranium mining - Wikipedia

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    Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. Over 50,000 tons of uranium were produced in 2019. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia were ...

  4. Uranium mining by country - Wikipedia

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    Uranium is produced from the Somair mine at Arlit, 63.4% owned by Orano Cycle and 36.66% by Niger state mining assets company Société du patrimoine des mines du Niger, known as SOPAMIN, and has produced nearly 68,000 tonnes (149,900,000 pounds) of uranium since operations began in 1971; and the Akouta mine at Akokan, owned by Orano Cycle (34% ...

  5. Fertile material - Wikipedia

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    If in situ resource utilization is desired to fuel nuclear power plants on the moon, converting fertile material to fissile material could be a way to make the resources last longer and to reduce the need for uranium enrichment which requires the chemically aggressive volatile fluorine to prepare uranium hexafluoride as used in the current ...

  6. Uranium mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Uranium production began in 1958, from open-pit and in situ leach mines. Uranium production stopped in 1999, but restarted in 2004. [75] By 2006, three mines were active: Kingsville Dome in Kleberg County, the Vasquez mine in Duval County, and the Alta Mesa mine in Brooks County. 2007 production was 1.34 million pounds (607 metric tons) of U 3 ...

  7. List of countries by uranium reserves - Wikipedia

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    World uranium reserves in 2010. Uranium reserves are reserves of recoverable uranium, regardless of isotope, based on a set market price. The list given here is based on Uranium 2020: Resources, Production and Demand, a joint report by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [1] Figures are given in metric ...

  8. K-25 - Wikipedia

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    Uranium hexafluoride is a highly corrosive substance. It is an oxidant [22] ... This was regarded as a satisfactory product by the Los Alamos Laboratory, so on 26 ...

  9. Satisfactory - Wikipedia

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    Satisfactory is programmed in C++. [8] Satisfactory was first announced at E3 2018. [9] Coffee Stain Studios tested the game through closed alpha test in mid-2018, before releasing it into open early access release in March 2019, initially with a year-long period of exclusivity on the Epic Games Store.