The phrase "a ton of uranium" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing quantities of uranium, often in contexts related to science, energy, or nuclear discussions.
Example: "The research facility reported that they had a ton of uranium stored safely for future experiments."
Alternatives: "a large amount of uranium" or "a significant quantity of uranium".
An IAEA official said the facility was designed to produce about a ton of enriched uranium a year, enough for a small warhead.
Even if one assumes that there is a ton of depleted uranium dust for every square kilometer in Kosovo, he said, its radiation would be just one one-hundredth, or 1percentt, of the naturally occurring level of radiation in the environment.
In one instance, Kazakhstan revealed the existence of a ton of highly enriched uranium and asked the United States to remove it, lest it fall into the wrong hands.
More than a ton of low-enriched uranium would have to be withdrawn from fully safeguarded inventories for further enrichment to produce enough material for a weapon.
The energy secretary, Ernest J. Moniz, appeared with a senior Japanese official to celebrate the removal of half a ton of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, which was shipped to the United States.
He might remind Netanyahu that if anyone had asked five years ago if an Iran with 6,000 centrifuges, more than a ton of low-enriched uranium and a genie-out-the-bottle level of technical nuclear know-how was over Israel's "red line," the answer would have been, "Damn right".
Down the road from Y-12 is Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which has more than a ton of bomb-grade uranium (233).
One mission in 1994 covertly ferried more than half a ton of weapons-grade uranium out of a Kazakhstani metallurgical plant three hours east of the Polygon.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which houses more than a ton of bomb-grade uranium and is down the road from Y-12, is also pathetically guarded.
The Olympic Dam plan would have involved digging an enormous open pit over several years capable of producing 750,000 ton of copper and 19,000 ton of uranium a year, but the economics no longer made sense following a 25 percent slump in copper prices over the past 18 months.
