uranium dioxide
Americannoun
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“If the item is glass, and fluoresces neon green under a black light, it contains uranium dioxide 100 percent of the time.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2022
The fuel rods in most cases consist of uranium dioxide pellets encased in zirconium alloy tubes or cladding.
From Scientific American • Mar. 17, 2011
It is where fissionable U-235 is combined with nitric acid to produce uranium dioxide, which is then combined at another plant with plutonium to produce the enriched uranium pellets used as breeder fuel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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