Sentence examples for kilograms of uranium from inspiring English sources

Ten kilograms of uranium was discussed — about a fifth of what was used over Hiroshima.

He said Mr. Netanyahu's red line translated into about 250 to 300 kilograms of uranium (or about 550 to 660 pounds) enriched to 20 percent.

Mr. Alvarez said government records showed that the Hicksville plant, also known as the Sylvania Corning or Sylcor plant, processed tens of thousands of kilograms of uranium that were "tainted with highly carcinogenic plutonium".

The I.A.E.A. inspected the complex last month and reported that about 10 kilograms of "uranium compounds" remained unaccounted for, adding, "The quantity and type of uranium compounds dispersed are not sensitive from a proliferation point of view".

An audit, announced in February, found that the department was likely to recover only about half of the 5,200 kilograms of uranium it was seeking and that no effort had been made to recover an additional 12,300 kilograms.

But now Iran has nearly three times the amount of low-enriched uranium it had then, as well as about 40 kilograms of uranium enriched to 19.75 percent, more than halfway to bomb grade.

Upon receiving the all clear, the plane dropped a bomb containing 64 kilograms of uranium-235, dubbed "Little Boy".

Dr. Cowan was sent to a laboratory in Massachusetts to retrieve a kilogram of uranium.

Zuzana Dutkova, a spokeswoman for the Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the European Union in Brussels, said the three suspects, who were arrested in Slovakia and Hungary, were in possession of just under half a kilogram of uranium in powder form.

A kilogram of uranium contains an estimated 1 nanogram (10−9 g) of technetium.

Less than a kilogram of Uranium underwent nuclear fission, and of this mass only 0.6 g was transformed into a different type of energy, initially kinetic energy, then heat and radiation.