Uranium: Compounds, Isotopes & Applications

ISBN-13: 9781606925737 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 582 str.

Gerhardt H Wolfe

Opis

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 fi