They took natural uranium, and they separated those two isotopes, highly enriched it in uranium 235.

They've enriched the lives of billions.

The discovery of oil enriched the country.

CO2 enriched air we force it through the urban agriculture facility, and then we resupply oxygen enriched air.

You can run these off they're really hungry, they really like down blended weapons pits, so that's highly enriched uranium and weapons grade plutonium that's been down blended.

It's less than one percent of uranium, it's about 0.7 percent uranium.

And found you in need, and enriched you?

Hardly at all. That's why it is still around. Uranium, two isotopes uranium 235, uranium 238 both of course are radioactive.

Uranium hexafluoride is a gas.

Uranium tetrafluoride is in solution.

He is not protecting himself from the uranium, he's protecting the uranium from himself.

And He found thee destitute, so He enriched thee.

We take animals, we put them in an enriched environment,

And then we get to uranium.

It's going to stay in solution. But the uranium will come out as uranium hexafluoride, a gas.

And uranium 233 is being consumed but the neutrons from the fission are making new uranium 233.

It became uranium 233. Isn't that cool?

And did He not find you in want, and then enriched you?

Large uranium reserves for nuclear fission still exist.

Uranium is used in the production of nuclear power.

Here's the decay chain that uranium 232 is on.

like uranium, plutonium, and everything else when they decay.

So, uranium, which is very big, wants to split.

You're fissioning uranium 233, but you're making a new one.

This is a handful of these uranium oxide fuel pellets.

You hit the salt with fluorine gas, and what'll happen is... There's uranium tetrafluoride, four fluoride ions, and there's uranium hexafluoride, six fluoride ions.

Now What about thorium and uranium? Both are naturally occurring materials.

The uranium and plutonium took on a gas form to escape.

Uranium 233, if you hit it with a neutron it will fission.

And with current reactor technology we really don't have very much uranium.

And you have the uranium mining that you have to deal with.

So they started looking at it, and it turns out, no, it's a really bad idea, because as you made the uranium 233, you were always making uranium 232.

If such feelings could resonate with each other, connecting and circulating, this should lead to an enriched society.

Because I think it'll fission. I think it'll fission just like uranium 235.

Their major asset for developing nuclear weapons is the Natanz uranium enrichment facility.

It doesn't have anything to do, in specifics, with centrifuges, with uranium enrichment.

The radioactivities are mixture of Uranium and Plutonium used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

We could use thorium about 200 times more efficiently than we're using uranium now.

They say to me, We're going to run out of uranium. I said, OK.

You've got this core fluid, a lithium beryilium salt, with uranium tetrafluoride in there.

So now, you've just refueled your core salt with uranium tetrafluoride. Cool trick, huh?

India and Pakistan developed nuclear weapons secretly by enriching uranium in nuclear energy facilities.

Well, uranium dioxide's a ceramic, and ceramic doesn't like releasing what's inside of it.

They'd take uranium 235 from less than one percent up to like 90 plus percent.

Now, plutonium is a different chemical element than uranium, so they can be chemically separated.