Noun
U-235 (uncountable)
Abbreviation of uranium-235.
Aggregate U-235 production About convert of uranium enriched to 89% uranium-235 was delivered to Los Alamos by July 1945. Source: Internet
As a gas, it undergoes enrichment to increase the U-235 content from 0.7% to about 4.4% (LEU). Source: Internet
CANDU was designed for natural uranium with only 0.7% U-235, so RU with 0.9% U-235 is a rich fuel. Source: Internet
Conventionally, the solid core NTR fuel itself is a small percentage of U-235 buried well inside an extremely strong carbon or carbide mixture. Source: Internet
In a CANDU reactor, this also allows individual fuel elements to be situated within the reactor core that are best suited to the amount of U-235 in the fuel element. Source: Internet
It is then turned into a hard ceramic oxide (UO 2 ) for assembly as reactor fuel elements. citation The main by-product of enrichment is depleted uranium (DU), principally the U-238 isotope, with a U-235 content of ~0.3%. Source: Internet