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Chemical compound
Uranium hexafluoride, sometimes called hex, is an inorganic compound with the formula UF6. Uranium hexafluoride is a volatile, white solid that is used
Uranium_hexafluoride
Uranium conversion facility in Illinois, United States
The Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility, a uranium conversion facility, is located 1.9 miles (3 km) northwest of Metropolis, Illinois,
Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility
Honeywell_Uranium_Hexafluoride_Processing_Facility
Index of chemical compounds with the same name
nuclear industry, uranium hexafluoride (UF6) is an important intermediate in the purification of this element. Cationic hexafluorides exist but are rarer
Hexafluoride
Uranium with lower content of U235
and nuclear power programs. Depleted uranium was originally stored as an unusable waste product (uranium hexafluoride) in the hope that improved enrichment
Depleted_uranium
Chemical element with atomic number 92 (U)
produces uranium trifluoride (UF 3). Under the right conditions of temperature and pressure, the reaction of solid UF 4 with gaseous uranium hexafluoride (UF
Uranium
Uranium processed to increase the percentage of uranium-235
either uranium dioxide, which can be used as the fuel for those types of reactors that do not require enriched uranium, or into uranium hexafluoride, which
Enriched_uranium
Chemical compound
depleted uranium. Its particle density is 8.38 g cm-3. Triuranium octoxide is converted to uranium hexafluoride for the purpose of uranium enrichment
Triuranium_octoxide
Byproduct of uranium enrichment
Depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUHF; also referred to as depleted uranium tails, depleted uranium tailings or DUF6) is a byproduct of the processing of
Depleted_uranium_hexafluoride
Manhattan Project codename for a program to produce enriched uranium
leakage of uranium hexafluoride (especially if it was already enriched) or of oil, which would react with the uranium hexafluoride. The pumps needed to
K-25
Old method of enriching uranium
is a technology that was used to produce enriched uranium by forcing gaseous uranium hexafluoride (UF6) through microporous membranes. This produces
Gaseous_diffusion
Chemical compound
existence of plutonium hexafluoride. Early experiments, which sought to mimic methods for the construction of uranium hexafluoride, had conflicting results;
Plutonium_hexafluoride
Uranium conversion facility in Islamabad, Pakistan
Atomic Energy Commission and has a nominal capacity of producing uranium hexafluoride (UF6). Despite its existence being known since 1990 following investigations
Islamabad Uranium Conversion Facility
Islamabad_Uranium_Conversion_Facility
Nuclear fuel company
multinational firms General Atomics and Honeywell that provides uranium hexafluoride (UF6) conversion and related services to utilities operating nuclear
ConverDyn
Chemical separation of spent nuclear fuel
proceed. Most of the uranium, which makes up the bulk of the fuel, is converted to uranium hexafluoride, the form of uranium used in uranium enrichment, which
Nuclear_reprocessing
American nuclear materials company
could be separated from Uranium-238 by turning uranium metal into uranium hexafluoride gas and straining it through a barrier material. The M. W. Kellogg
Kellex_Corporation
Manhattan Project uranium enrichment facility
uranium hexafluoride would be allocated to the NRL, although it would exchange enriched uranium hexafluoride for regular uranium hexafluoride. Groves
S-50_(Manhattan_Project)
Failed attempt by the Empire of Japan to develop nuclear technology
limited to cyclotron research, production of small quantities of uranium hexafluoride, and an unsuccessful attempt to enrich it via thermal diffusion in
Japanese nuclear weapons programs
Japanese_nuclear_weapons_programs
Chemical compound
Technetium hexafluoride occurs as an impurity in uranium hexafluoride, as technetium is a fission product of uranium (spontaneous fission in natural uranium, possible
Technetium_hexafluoride
Chemical compound and greenhouse gas
Sulfur hexafluoride or sulphur hexafluoride (British spelling) is an inorganic compound with the formula SF6. It is a colorless, odorless, non-flammable
Sulfur_hexafluoride
Program of the Manhattan Project to convert uranium ores into feed materials
(electromagnetic) isotope separation process, and uranium hexafluoride for the K-25 (gaseous diffusion) separation process. Uranium was discovered in 1789 by the German
Manhattan Project feed materials program
Manhattan_Project_feed_materials_program
Nuclear operations in supplying fuel to French nuclear reactors
difference between molecules of uranium 235 hexafluoride (mass 349), which are lighter than those of uranium 238 hexafluoride (mass 352). By filtering them
Nuclear_fuel_cycle_in_France
Type of anion
one uranium atom. It is most commonly found in the +4 or +5 oxidation states. It can be produced by combining cations with uranium hexafluoride. There
Hexafluorouranate
Uranium concentrate powder
systems utilizing natural unenriched uranium. For enrichment purposes, uranium oxides are converted to uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6) through fluorination.
Yellowcake
World War II Allied nuclear weapons program
1941 he began working with uranium hexafluoride, the only known gaseous compound of uranium, and was able to separate uranium-235. At Columbia, Karl P.
Manhattan_Project
Chemical compound
is 1.817 Å. Molybdenum hexafluoride has few uses. In the nuclear industry, MoF6 occurs as an impurity in uranium hexafluoride since molybdenum is a fission
Molybdenum_hexafluoride
Process of manufacturing and using nuclear fuel
to uranium hexafluoride (UF6), the input stock for most commercial uranium enrichment facilities. A solid at room temperature, uranium hexafluoride becomes
Nuclear_fuel_cycle
Industry dealing with chemicals from fluorine
in uranium enrichment, because uranium hexafluoride molecules will differ in mass only because of mass differences between uranium-235 and uranium-238
Fluorochemical_industry
Naturally occurring uranium self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions
gaseous uranium hexafluoride made from Gabonese ore. The existence of the Oklo reactors was confirmed through analysis of isotope ratios of uranium and of
Natural nuclear fission reactor
Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor
Decommissioned uranium processing facility
1968 and began operation in 1970. It converted yellowcake uranium into uranium hexafluoride. The plant was operated under Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation
Sequoyah_Fuels_Corporation
Index of chemical compounds with the same name
Uranium fluoride can refer to: Uranium trifluoride, UF3 Uranium tetrafluoride, UF4 Uranium pentafluoride, UF5 Uranium hexafluoride, UF6 Tetrauranium heptadecafluoride
Uranium_fluoride
The site hosts the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) where yellowcake (uranium ore concentrate) is converted into uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas – the feedstock
Nuclear_program_of_Iran
European nuclear fuel company
regarding the transport of a record-volume shipment of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) from Germany to the Siberian town of Seversk.[citation needed]
Urenco_Group
When one nuclear reaction causes more
remaining uranium hexafluoride compound is drained into metal cylinders where it solidifies. The next step is separating the uranium hexafluoride from the
Nuclear_chain_reaction
Chemical compound including uranium
produces uranium trifluoride (UF 3). Under the right conditions of temperature and pressure, the reaction of solid UF 4 with gaseous uranium hexafluoride (UF
Uranium_compounds
Material fuelling nuclear reactors
from natural uranium, however most UO 2 fuel pellets are made from low-enriched uranium. Enriched uranium is produced as uranium hexafluoride (UF 6), and
Nuclear_fuel
Uranium enrichment facility in Iran
Iran stated that the purpose of the facility was the production of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) enriched up to 5% U-235, and that the facility was being built
Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant
Fordow_Uranium_Enrichment_Plant
Chemical compound
Its major benefit was that the uranium tetrachloride used in the calutrons is not as corrosive as the uranium hexafluoride used in most other enrichment
Uranium_tetrachloride
Mechanical process
common method used for uranium enrichment, relying on the slight mass difference between atoms of U-238 and U-235 in uranium hexafluoride gas. In a liquid suspension
Centrifugation
Severe events involving radioactive materials
at Sequoyah Fuels Corporation ruptured and released 14.5 tons of uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6), causing the death of a worker, the hospitalization of
Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents
British nuclear weapons research group, 1940–1941
government also placed a £5,000 order for 5 kilograms (11 lb) of uranium hexafluoride with ICI. Uranium oxide was purchased from the Brandhurt Company, which sourced
MAUD_Committee
Chemical compound
fluorinating agent and an ionizing inorganic solvent. It is used to produce uranium hexafluoride (UF6) in the processing and reprocessing of nuclear fuel. Bromine
Bromine_trifluoride
Type of nuclear reactor
with gaseous uranium hexafluoride, where the uranium is enriched, to a level just short of criticality. Afterward, the uranium hexafluoride is compressed
Gaseous_fission_reactor
Method of enriching uranium
repression to excite a vibrational mode of the 235 Uranium isotope in uranium hexafluoride (UF6), allowing this lighter molecule to move more rapidly to the
Separation of isotopes by laser excitation
Separation_of_isotopes_by_laser_excitation
American nuclear-fuel company
company’s operations focus exclusively on uranium enrichment — converting uranium hexafluoride (UF6) into enriched uranium — while leaving mining, conversion
General_Matter
Chemical element with atomic number 9 (F)
and the Manhattan Project used huge quantities to produce uranium hexafluoride for uranium enrichment. Since UF6 is as corrosive as fluorine, gaseous
Fluorine
Nuclear site in Lancashire, England
well as intermediate fuel products (uranium dioxide powders, granules, and pellets) Production of uranium hexafluoride, or "hex" Processing of fuel-cycle
Springfields
Toronto-based holding company
investing nearly all of its assets in uranium, both in the form of uranium oxide (U 3O 8) or uranium hexafluoride (UF 6), with the primary investment objective
Sprott_Physical_Uranium_Trust
Chemical compound
compounds of uranium suitable for use in the diffusion separation of uranium isotopes. Uranium borohydride is, after uranium hexafluoride, the most volatile
Uranium_borohydride
German scientist (1912–1996)
of Kurt Diebner. Yellowcake uranium oxide powder was reacted with hydrofluoric acid to form gaseous uranium hexafluoride. It was pumped into the sluice
Erich_Bagge
Topics referred to by the same term
Center, an admin center of Honeywell's Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility, a uranium conversion facility of Honeywell's Honeywell project
Honeywell_(disambiguation)
Chemical compound
2 UCl6 + 10 HF → 2 UF5 + 10 HCl + Cl2 Uranium hexachloride is efficiently prepared from uranium hexafluoride by halide exchange using boron trichloride
Uranium_hexachloride
Type of nuclear reactor that uses molten material as fuel
mainly uranium hexafluoride, containing the uranium-233 fuel, but also neptunium hexafluoride, technetium hexafluoride and selenium hexafluoride, as well
Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor
Nuclear facility in Iran
safeguarding seals from the facility and resumed uranium enrichment, introducing uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6) into centrifuges both in the FEP and PFEP
Natanz_Nuclear_Facility
Former uranium enrichment plant in Pike County, Ohio, USA
diffusion of uranium hexafluoride to separate the lighter fissile isotope, uranium-235 (U-235), from the heavier non-fissile isotope, uranium-238. The plant
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Portsmouth_Gaseous_Diffusion_Plant
Uranium fuel factory in Ohio, U.S.
and uranium hexafluoride (UF6); and Union Carbide's Electro-Metallurgical Division plant in Niagara Falls, New York, turned green salt into uranium metal
Fernald Feed Materials Production Center
Fernald_Feed_Materials_Production_Center
restrictions by the technology holders—uranium enrichment—was mastered in just a few years. The production of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) in 2010 completed the cycle
Brazilian Navy Nuclear Program
Brazilian_Navy_Nuclear_Program
Solution of hydrogen fluoride in water
fluorides prepared from hydrofluoric acid include sodium fluoride and uranium hexafluoride. It is used in the semiconductor industry as a major component of
Hydrofluoric_acid
Topics referred to by the same term
isotopes by laser excitation (SILEX), a classified process involving uranium hexafluoride and a carrier gas. This disambiguation page lists articles associated
Laser_isotope_separation
Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936–2021)
the isotopes U234, U235, and U238 from sublimed raw uranium by rotating the uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas at up to ~100,000 revolutions per minute (rpm)
Abdul_Qadeer_Khan
Nuclear reactor, Oak Ridge 1965–1969
in roughly 10:1 ratio, to remove oxide, fluorine to remove uranium as uranium hexafluoride. The secondary coolant was LiF-BeF2 (66–34 mole %). The bowl
Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment
Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment
Class of chemical compounds
covalently bonded. A few metal halides are discrete molecules, such as uranium hexafluoride, but most adopt polymeric structures, such as palladium chloride
Metal_halides
Chemical compound
related to uranium hexafluoride, which is widely used to produce uranium fuel. It crystallizes in two polymorphs, called α- and β-UF5. Uranium pentafluoride
Uranium_pentafluoride
Uranium hexafluoride must therefore be oxidized into triuranium octoxide and uranium trioxide. These compounds are then converted to UO2 (uranium oxide)
Ducrete
Chemical compound
Tungsten(VI) fluoride, also known as tungsten hexafluoride, is an inorganic compound with the formula WF6. It is a toxic, corrosive, colorless gas, with
Tungsten_hexafluoride
are used to separate isotopes of uranium using selective ionization of hyperfine transitions of uranium hexafluoride molecules. It is similar to Atomic
Molecular laser isotope separation
Molecular_laser_isotope_separation
Concentrating specific isotopes of a chemical element
In this method, an infrared laser is directed at uranium hexafluoride gas (if enrichment of uranium is desired), exciting molecules that contain a U-235
Isotope_separation
Gas centrifuge designed to enrich uranium-235
applies only to uranium metal). Centrifuges need to work with a fluid rather than a solid, and this process used gaseous uranium hexafluoride. The relative
Zippe-type_centrifuge
1997 and 1999 Tōkai nuclear plant events
been able to make it at all. The JCO facility converted uranium hexafluoride into enriched uranium dioxide fuel. This served as the first step in producing
Tokaimura_nuclear_accidents
British chemical engineer (1905–1989)
the Second World War he provided James Chadwick with samples of uranium hexafluoride for Tube Alloys, the British wartime nuclear weapons program, and
Philip_Baxter
Decommissioned uranium enrichment facility
enriched uranium to fuel military reactors and for use in nuclear weapons. The mode of enrichment was gaseous diffusion of uranium hexafluoride to separate
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Paducah_Gaseous_Diffusion_Plant
Chemical compound
Uranium tetrafluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula UF4. It is a green solid with an insignificant vapor pressure and low solubility in water
Uranium_tetrafluoride
Uranium-Oxygen compound
tetrafluoride are intermediates in the process which ends in uranium hexafluoride. Uranium trioxide is shipped between processing facilities in the form of
Uranium_trioxide
Hypothetical type of spacecraft
completely transparent to this light, so it would be used to contain the uranium hexafluoride and allow the light to heat reaction mass in a rocket or to generate
Nuclear_lightbulb
City in Illinois, United States
the site of the Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility, which converts milled uranium into uranium hexafluoride for nuclear reactors. Metropolis
Metropolis,_Illinois
Group that helped initiate the Manhattan Project
1941 he began working with uranium hexafluoride, the only known gaseous compound of uranium, and was able to separate uranium-235. At Columbia, Urey had
S-1_Executive_Committee
4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1928–1979)
Khan's uranium enrichment designs were exchanged with the Chinese for uranium hexafluoride (UF6) and some highly enriched weapons-grade uranium. Later
Zulfikar_Ali_Bhutto
Chemical compound
leached by oxygen-bearing waters. Uranium sulfate is a transitional compound in the production of uranium hexafluoride. It was also used to fuel aqueous
Uranium(IV)_sulfate
Pakistani nuclear engineer (born 1940)
with South African scientists in discussing the jet-nozzle method for uranium enrichment. However, it remains unclear how much interaction had taken
Sultan_Bashiruddin_Mahmood
Company based in Angarsk, Russia
(Rosatom group). The Angarsk Electrochemical Combine manufactures uranium hexafluoride, triflic acid, niobium oxide, tantalum oxide, radiation detectors
Angarsk Electrochemical Combine
Angarsk_Electrochemical_Combine
British nuclear weapons research during WW2
long hundredweight (51 kg) of pure uranium metal and 50 to 100 kilograms (110 to 220 lb) of uranium hexafluoride per day commenced operation in Widnes
Tube_Alloys
Device for controlled nuclear reactions
nuclear lightbulb rocket, where the fissile material is gaseous uranium hexafluoride contained in a fused silica vessel. A working gas (such as hydrogen)
Nuclear_reactor
Chemical compound
comparison, uranium hexafluoride (UF6) is formed relatively rapidly from uranium tetrafluoride (UF4) and F2 at 300 °C, while plutonium hexafluoride (PuF6)
Neptunium(VI)_fluoride
American defense and energy company
information dominance for multi-domain operations. ConverDyn – provides uranium hexafluoride (UF6) conversion and related services to utilities operating nuclear
General_Atomics
Tendency of highly fluorinated molecules to vaporize
System. Uranium oxides react with fluorine to form gaseous uranium hexafluoride, most of the plutonium reacts to form gaseous plutonium hexafluoride, a majority
Fluoride_volatility
Chemical compound
Americium hexafluoride is a hypothetical inorganic chemical compound of americium and fluorine with the chemical formula AmF 6. Synthesis by fluorination
Americium_hexafluoride
Uranium enrichment facility in Cheshire, England
de-converts the depleted uranium tails produced as a by-product of enrichment from a uranium hexafluoride compound to a more stable uranium oxide compound for
Capenhurst_nuclear_site
Chemical compound
Selig, Henry; Siegel, Stanley (January 1966). "Complex Compounds of Uranium Hexafluoride with Sodium Fluoride and Potassium Fluoride". Inorganic Chemistry
Einsteinium_hexafluoride
Chemical compound
further separation and preparation of uranium hexafluoride for isotope separation for preparing of enriched uranium. A special property of uranyl nitrate
Uranyl_nitrate
Device that performs isotope separation of gases
{1-x}{x}}\right)} The separation of uranium requires the material in a gaseous form; uranium hexafluoride (UF6) is used for uranium enrichment. Upon entering the
Gas_centrifuge
Empirical thermodynamic model of gas-transport phenomenon
plant, yellowcake, uranium concentrate recovered from the leaching of uranium ore, was first converted to volatile uranium hexafluoride. UF6 was then heated
Graham's_law
Computer worm first discovered in 2010
centrifuge failure rate over a long time period by stealthily inducing uranium hexafluoride gas overpressure incidents. This malware was capable of spreading
Stuxnet
History of the chemical element fluorine
use in uranium separation. Gaseous uranium hexafluoride was used to separate uranium-235, an important nuclear explosive, from the heavier uranium-238 in
History_of_fluorine
Method of separating isotopes of uranium
235U is separated from the mass by dissolving it in acid to produce uranium hexafluoride and then using gas centrifuges to separate the isotopes. Each trip
Atomic vapor laser isotope separation
Atomic_vapor_laser_isotope_separation
Nuclear industrial site in France
operation, the Georges Besse I plant was supplied with uranium (in the form of uranium hexafluoride (UF6)) by the Comurhex plant on the Tricastin site and
Tricastin_Nuclear_Site
Cameco's conversion facility produces uranium hexafluoride (UF6) for foreign uranium enrichment facilities and uranium dioxide (UO2) for local fuel manufacturers
Nuclear_power_in_Canada
Ion of fluorine
a commodity chemical used in steel-making. Uranium hexafluoride is employed in the purification of uranium isotopes. Fluoride-containing compounds, such
Fluoride
production and handling of uranium hexafluoride for uranium enrichment, whether by diffusion or centrifuge. Uranium hexafluoride is very corrosive, oxidising
Fowler_process
Periodic table of the elements with eight or more periods
superactinide hexafluorides is mostly between the highest 8p subshell of the superactinide and the 2p subshell of fluorine, unlike how uranium uses its 5f
Extended_periodic_table
Cancer caused by ionizing radiation exposure
in their desire to speed up the process of converting uranium hexafluoride to enriched uranium dioxide, resulted in a critical mass that resulted in technicians
Radiation-induced_cancer
Research and development complex in Nilore, Islamabad.
and understanding the chemistry of uranium hexafluoride, which the technology was transferred to the Islamabad Uranium Conversion Facility in 1974. In addition
Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology
Pakistan_Institute_of_Nuclear_Science_&_Technology
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