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Oklo: Earth’s only natural nuclear reactor is a 2-billion-year-old atomic wonder
A sample of uranium ore sourced from a mine in Gabon displayed an unusual isotopic ratio of uranium-235 (U-235) that defied existing scientific understanding. Naturally occurring uranium typically ...
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As uranium ore ships across the Navajo Nation, an agreement faces scrutiny
Energy Fuels Inc. resumed shipping uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon to the White Mesa Mill in southern Utah on Wednesday morning after reaching an agreement with the ...
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The riches of uranium
by the French chemist Eugène-Melchior Péligot who reduced the anhydrous uranium tetrachloride present in the ore with potassium. Through the end of the nineteenth century and until the mid ...