Bill Gates

The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

American Businessman

Werner Heisenberg

I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would make a bomb; and at the bottom of my heart, I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb.

German Physicist

Marie Curie

My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.

Polish Scientist

Vladimir Putin

Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

Russian Statesman

Naftali Bennett

Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

Israeli Politician

Mohamed ElBaradei

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

Egyptian Scientist

Barack Obama

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

American President

Lee Zeldin

I fear Iran continuing to be able to pursue uranium enrichment and to maintain several thousand centrifuges.

American Politician

Khalid A. Al-Falih

We have large resources of uranium that we are exploring, and we are extremely encouraged.

Saudi Arabian Public Servant

Michael C. Burgess

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

Uranium is often discussed in scientific, environmental, and political contexts due to its uses.

Scientific Use

Mentioning uranium may evoke concerns about radioactivity, safety, and health risks.

Radioactivity Caution

Unlike common metals like iron or copper, uranium is not found in everyday objects due to its radioactivity.

Not Ordinary Metal

 and helped to disprove the long-standing model of atoms as indivisible objects. Next, by focusing on a super radioactive ore called pitchblende, the Curies realized that uranium alone couldn't be creating all the radiation. So, were there other radioactive elements that might be responsible?

The genius of Marie...

 They all look the same under a microscope, I mean, to a first approximation. You can take the most fascinating organisms in the world, like a microbe that literally breathes uranium, and another one that makes rocket fuel, mix them up with some ocean mud, put them underneath a microscope,

This deep-sea mystery is...

 to scatter and slow down neutrons just enough to increase their capture by uranium and raise the rate of fission. Modern reactors commonly use purified water as a moderator, but the scattered neutrons are still a little too fast. To compensate and keep up the chain reaction,

How do nuclear power...

 You can run these off -- they're really hungry, they really like down-blended weapons pits, so that's highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium that's been down-blended. It's made into a grade where it's not usable for a nuclear weapon, but they love this stuff.

Taylor Wilson: My...

 so it's called depleted uranium. That would power the US for hundreds of years. And simply by filtering seawater in an inexpensive process, you'd have enough fuel for the entire lifetime of the rest of the planet. So, you know, it's got lots of challenges ahead,

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 pounds of highly enriched uranium this is not a product placement it's just fact if I was going to call I'd be pretty distressed about this but but but basically this is it this is what you would need to steal or buy out of that

Surviving a nuclear...

 truth in that sense but on the other hand in order to build an atom bomb a good understanding of physics is not enough you also need people to cooperate to mine uranium and build reactors and

Yuval Noah Harari...

 However it's relatively rare on earth. On our planet, helium forms as a gaseous byproduct of ancient uranium that's decayed over billions of years and is trapped beneath the earth's surface.

Helium 101 PIPE National...

 uranium the size of my fist could provide all the power I'd need for the rest of my life it may be an uncomfortable truth but nuclear holds enormous potential for both the

An eco-modernist...

 one before in the world in collections and museums yes that uranium ore it's certainly the biggest moth I've seen flying the biggest cicadas in flying and