All Uranium articles
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BusinessNuclear power expansion plans highlight fuel bottlenecks
Western governments look to overcome Russian dominance of key uranium processing steps
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NewsThe subterranean chemistry that explains India’s groundwater contamination
Complex interplay of factors has led to elevated levels of arsenic, uranium and fluoride in drinking water, making the country’s poorest citizens sick
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ResearchPhotochemistry enables safer method for reprocessing plutonium and uranium mixtures
Method bypasses harsh redox reagents while maintaining high separation factors
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ResearchUranium’s strong covalent bond breaks periodic table predictions
Actinide’s unusual covalency could explain its ability to fix nitrogen
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NewsShedding light on Nazi-era uranium cubes with modern nuclear forensics
US team are using radiochronometry to confirm their authenticity and origins
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ResearchLightest uranium isotope yet reveals nuclear stability secrets
Discovery offers new insight into isotopic stability seen at ‘magic numbers’
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ResearchFour-electron transfer is a first for f-element chemistry
Uranium (II) systems shown to effect reduction of azobenzene to yield a bis(imido) uranium (VI) complex
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ResearchNew type of bond is the first to defy actinide contraction trend
Bonds discovered in metallacycles are unique to the 5f elements
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ResearchUranium and thorium make their debut in dual aromatic–antiaromatic molecule
First two metallabiphenylene compounds synthesised
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ResearchChernobyl’s intensely radioactive ‘elephant’s foot’ lava recreated in the lab
Mimic of the lava produced by a reactor meltdown is far safer to work with
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ResearchUranium compound unearths questions on nuclear waste
Environmental chemists place sub-surface uranium chemistry under the spotlight
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ResearchUranium-reducing electrode cleans up groundwater
Electrochemical technique could limit spread of uranium at contaminated sites
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ResearchUranium isotopes in ancient grains indicate early Earth was less hellish than textbook descriptions
Mass spectrometry technique that works on tiny samples refines understanding of Earth’s first geologic eon
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ResearchNew ligand removes uranium from bones
A treatment that mops up uranium in the bones and kidneys of mice could help humans exposed to radiation
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ResearchRobot speeds up production of plutonium spacecraft fuel
Radioisotope synthesis quadrupled by robot in bid to reach Nasa target
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ResearchUranium at heart of rare hydrogen cyanide complex
Turquoise powder is only second example of a hydrogen cyanide complex of a uranium compound
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ResearchAbandoned Cornish mine may hold clues to uranium clean-up
First time arsenic has been found to lock up uranium in a mineral
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NewsRussia urged to reduce uranium stockpile
International nuclear experts warn that nuclear threats posed by Russia’s 680 tons of highly enriched uranium must be minimised
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ResearchFirst uranium–rhodium bond shows that shorter is not stronger
Complex with one of the shortest uranium–transition metal bonds ever reported is unstable in solution