How to Use uranium in a Sentence

uranium

noun

• Allied forces shipped the uranium cubes found at the site first to Paris and later to the U.S.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
• That is important for Niger, which has one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2023
• The amount of uranium that has changed to lead can tell us the amount of time that has passed since the zircon’s formation.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
• Not mentioned in the memo: the land’s valuable uranium deposits, which could be ...
  — Jonathan Nicastro, National Review, 8 Aug. 2023
• The source uranium for those pits was scraped from the ground in mines in the Southwest, hundreds of them on Navajo Nation lands.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• In exchange, the U.S. would gain access to the kingdom’s uranium, the person said.
  — Bloomberg News, Orange County Register, 2 May 2024
• For the first time, Iran has enriched uranium to 60 percent.
  — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2021
• The target was a gold-uranium cylinder about the size of a pencil eraser.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
• The plants were built in the mid-1950s to provide power to a uranium enrichment plant in Southern Ohio.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
• Apparently it is lined with lead and uranium, which keeps the mouse from passing through the walls.
  — Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
• Centrifuges are tall tubes that enrich a gaseous form of uranium.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• With the Vac-U-Form came the danger of skin burns, and the uranium ore supplied by Gilbert would have been a health hazard if crumbled and swallowed.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• The country is the world’s seventh-biggest producer of uranium and one of the main exporters of the substance to Europe.
  — Miriam Berger, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Iran can now, in a matter of days, produce enough highly enriched uranium to make a bomb.
  — Eric Brewer, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2024
• Tehran has since ramped up uranium enrichment at a pace not seen since its signing.
  — Tara John, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
• Zang and his co-authors dated the sample of the prints by assessing uranium.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
• Talks about a trade deal followed and Australia’s long-standing ban on uranium sales to India was dropped.
  — Ian Hall, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2022
• The traces of 84%-enriched uranium were found in the cascades Iran had connected up without informing the agency.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• Eight tons of waste from a uranium mine at St. Joachimsthal in Bohemia, and four years of work, yielded one-tenth of a gram of radium chloride.
  — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 30 July 2021
• Many early pieces will glow eerily green when placed under a black light, a telltale sign the glass contains uranium.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2022
• Since the deal’s collapse, Iran now enriches small amounts of uranium up to 60% purity — a short step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
  — Fox News, 1 Dec. 2021
• Since the deal’s collapse, Iran now enriches small amounts of uranium up to 60% purity – a short step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
  — Nasser Karimi, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2021
• Over the course of the last year, Iran’s push to enrich uranium has only increased in pace and sophistication.
  — Carol E. B. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
• If anything went wrong at launch, roughly 700 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium would suddenly fall from the sky.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 July 2024
• From less than $10/lb uranium rose to $40/lb, driven by a flood of orders for nuclear reactors to combat the oil squeeze.
  — Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Its total stockpile of enriched uranium has grown to 3,941 kilograms, the report said.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
• The bill also has $700 million to produce the uranium fuel in the United States that many advanced reactors need.
  — Jennifer McDermott, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2022
• Weapon-grade uranium is considered to have been enriched above 90%.
  — Tara John, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
• And Iran could need more than a year—or at least several months, by some estimates—to convert its uranium into a usable weapon.
  — Uri Friedman, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
• The West and Israel should be mindful over the apparent change in tempo of Iran’s uranium enrichment and be petrified of losing the wider war of non proliferation in a region unable to step back from the brink.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024