Working without care uranium may be a pollutant for soils and waters.
These disadvantages can be avoided today.
The simple exposure to natural uranium is not so dangerous because the gamma radiation emitted is not so energetic and also it is auto-absorbed in the uranium material. The danger is to inhale or to ingest uranium compounds.
Uranium is a nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors.
Uranium can be exhausted by using this metal as a nuclear fuel.But we are still far from it.
Electron configuration of uranium is: [Rn]5f36d17s2
No
You'll have to make your question more clear. Are you talking about depleted uranium munitions? Or are you claiming the US are using depleted uranium for something else?
Approx. 30 countries has now nuclear energetic reactors with uranium fuels.
The electron configuration of uranium is (short): [Rn]5f36d17s2.
Yes, it is used
The chemical symbol of uranium is U.
It was both: an atomic bomb using uranium as its fuel.
To use natural uranium in a bomb either of 2 things must be done first, both are expensive and require large infrastructure investment to do them:Enrich the uranium from 0.72% uranium-235 (natural) to 93.5% uranium-235 (Oralloy or HEU).Process the uranium to turn some of the uranium-238 to plutonium-239 in a reactor then chemicallly separate the plutonium from the rest of the irradiated material chemically.In WW2 the US did step 1 at Oak Ridge, TN using a gigantic gaseous diffusion enrichment plant and an electromagnetic separation plant; and step 2 at Hanford, WA using several graphite moderated reactors and large chemical separation plants called "canyons".