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    What is the difference between medicine grade, energy grade, and weapons grade uranium?

    Question #125183. Asked by houston1127. (Feb 19 12 4:39 PM)


    MikeMaster99

    		The relative proportion of the highly unstable 235U isotope. It's natural abundance is only 0.7% (i.e. of every 1000 U atoms, only 7 will be 235U.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium
    Sorry, should have added:
    Nuclear fuel is bout 3-4% 235U, while weapons grade is up to 90% 235U. Highly enriched uranium processing plants are used to create medical isotopes but these are not uranium isotopes themselves but some of the decay products.

    Feb 19 12, 4:46 PM

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