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Title: |
Uranium |
| Sub-title: |
Compounds, Isotopes & Applications |
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| Edited by: |
Gerhardt H Wolfe |
| ISBN10-13: |
1606925733 : 9781606925737 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
582 |
| Weight: |
1.206 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - December 2009 |
| List Price: |
331.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Nuclear power & engineering |
| Many contemporary uses of uranium exploit its unique nuclear properties. Uranium-235 has the distinction of being the only naturally occurring fissile isotope. Uranium-238 is both fissionable by fast neutrons, and fertile (capable of being transmuted to fissile plutonium-239 in a nuclear reactor). An artificial fissile isotope, uranium-233, can be produced from natural thorium and is also important in nuclear technology. While uranium-238 has a small probability to fission spontaneously or when bombarded with fast neutrons, the much higher probability of uranium-235 and to a lesser degree uranium-233 to fission when bombarded with slow neutrons generates the heat in nuclear reactors used as a source of power, and provides the fissile material for nuclear weapons. Both uses rely on the ability of uranium to produce a sustained nuclear chain reaction. Depleted uranium (uranium-238) is used in kinetic energy penetrators and armour plating. This important book presents new research in the field. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; Recent Advances in Separation Techniques of Uranium from Other Metal Ions; Control of Root-to-Shoot Translocation of (Heavy) Metals in Chinese Cabbage by Application of Carbon & Nitrogen Compounds to Uranium Mine Dump Soil; Some Applications of the Natural Uranium Isotopes 238U & 234U in Environmental Studies; Validation of Operational Changes to the Standard Process of Water Potabilisation to Maximize the Removal of the Uranium Content; The Use of Models to Understand the Aqueous Chemistry of Uranium; Isotope Denaturing of Uranium; Tracer Elements & Uranium-Series Isotopes in the Bottom Sediments of Lake Baikal as Geochemical Climate Proxies for High-Resolution Reconstructions of Regional Change; Effect of Biosubstances on the ROS Formation by Depleted Uranium; The Surface Reactions of Uranium Oxides; Strategies for Removal of Toxic Heavy Metals & Uranium from Environmental Samples; In Situ Uranium Stabilization through Polyphosphate Remediation: Development & Demonstration at the Hanford Site 300 Area, Washington State; Preconcentration of Uranium (IV) Complexes from Water Samples. Evaluation of Micellar Extraction; Index. |
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