How to Use uranium in a Sentence

uranium

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Tehran has since ramped up uranium enrichment at a pace not seen since its signing.
  — Tara John, CNN, 22 Nov. 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
• 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
• Still, the United States is not convinced Iran intends to use the facility to enrich uranium.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2022
• And many unknowingly worked enriching the very uranium that would be sent to Los Alamos.
  — Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• Iran might also exploit the chaos to further enrich its uranium stockpile and rush to make nuclear bombs.
  — Michael Oren, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2023
• Specifically, Niger is the seventh largest producer of uranium in the world.
  — Daniel Markind, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• The uranium enrichment deal was hammered out during Putin’s visit to Iran in July 2022.
  — Fox News, 5 Mar. 2023
• Some members — especially those old enough to remember the old uranium and coal mines — want more Navajo land opened up to mining and oil drilling.
  — Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• President Biden is planning to protect 1.1 million acres around the Grand Canyon from uranium mining.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• But then-President Trump pulled out of the deal in 2018, and Iran has steadily increased its enrichment of uranium, a key step in building nuclear bombs.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Niger, east of Mali, where Wagner mercenaries have a significant presence, sits in a key strategic slice of the Sahel and is one of the world’s largest sources of uranium.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• One of these sites was Oak Ridge in Tennessee, which was built as another secret city, devoted to the production of uranium for the atomic bomb.
  — Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023
• The building was the location of the first production of uranium metal at Y-12 and part of the earliest nuclear weapons production.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
• France depends on Niger’s uranium mines for about 15 percent of the resources needed to fuel its nuclear power plants.
  — Elian Peltier, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• There’s a push in the US to build up a domestic supply chain of uranium, which communities near uranium mines and mills are already fighting.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 26 Sep. 2023
• The second book is a sequel to Black Wolf, this time set in Kazakhstan, repository of the world’s largest uranium deposits, some of which had been developed for nuclear weapons.
  — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
• What this means broadly is that all of that land — once threatened by diamond and uranium mining — is safe from development.
  — David Treuer, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2023
• However, the swap won't mean that tensions have been lowered between the U.S. and Iran, which now enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels.
  — Time, 18 Sep. 2023
• Tehran still has good reasons not to build a nuclear weapon or even to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels and bar UN inspectors entirely.
  — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2024
• Nuclear power, which Iran says is the purpose of its nuclear program, requires uranium to be enriched to 3% to 5%.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
• Since the deal's collapse, Iran has been running advanced centrifuges and rapidly growing stockpiles of enriched uranium.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 29 June 2022
• By comparing the ratios of different forms of lead and uranium atoms called isotopes in the sample, scientists can estimate its age.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024