uranium dioxide

noun

Chemistry.

1. a black, crystalline compound, UO 2 , insoluble in water, used in nuclear fuel rods, in ceramics, and pigments.

Example Sentences

“If the item is glass, and fluoresces neon green under a black light, it contains uranium dioxide 100 percent of the time.”

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Commercial reactors have used the same fuel for decades: small pellets of uranium dioxide stacked inside long cylindrical rods made of a zirconium alloy.

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In others, zirconium and even the uranium dioxide are replaced with different materials.

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Particles found within a few kilometers of the power plant also contained nanosize pieces of uranium dioxide, the nuclear fuel used in the plant.

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Uranium dioxide is compressed into pellets about the size of a fingertip.

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