Sentence examples for a pound of uranium from inspiring English sources

Partly as a result, the price of a pound of uranium is down sharply, forcing some mines to shut down.

That's because every pound of uranium that India is allowed to import for its power reactors frees up a pound of uranium for its bomb program.

A pound of weapons-grade uranium, on the black market, could be worth at least a hundred times that amount.

One pound of uranium yields as much energy as 1.4 million kilograms (3 million pounds) of coal.

In 1944, the trust purchased 3440000 pound of uranium oxide ore from companies operating mines in the Belgian Congo.

The first shipment of uranium oxide came from the Ann's Pride mine, and in total, 2500 pound of uranium oxide was shipped out of the region.

However, the poor quality of ore eked out of these wooded hills means that for every pound of uranium extracted, 795 pounds of toxic slurry, known as tailings, must be discarded into three colossal ponds.

An improvised explosive device can be made with just a hundred and twenty pounds of uranium or twenty pounds of plutonium.

In all about 26 pounds of enriched uranium and almost a pound of plutonium have been seized in various arrests.

That translates into an additional 82 million pounds of uranium, according to RBC.

A few hours before Wednesday's hearing, the leader of Iran's nuclear program said the country had already used a newly built site to enrich about 11 pounds of uranium to a level of 20 percent, right on the line between "low enriched" fuel and a broad category called "highly enriched".