- nuclear weapons
- armors
- projectiles
The only nuclear weapons ever used in war were the US's MK-1 Uranium gun bomb and MK-3 Plutonium implosion bomb.
Hiroshima bomb: uranium Nagasaki bomb: plutonium
Uranium enrichment plantsPrototype plutonium production reactor & design of plutonium production reactors used in Hanford, WA
Pitchblende is uranium ore, so any nuclear weapon which used uranium in some form or other (tamper, core, used with plutonium, secondary casing) would need uranium, which is initially obtained from the mining and refining of pitchblende, for example, Little Boy.
Fat Man (plutonium a-bomb) and Little Boy (uranium a-bomb)
- Enriched uranium is used as explosive in some nuclear weapons. Depleted uranium is used for: - armors - projectiles - ballast
Uranium was used in warfare as the main component in atomic bombs, such as those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. In medicine, uranium is used in radiation therapy for cancer treatment, as well as in certain diagnostic imaging procedures.
Its one of only 2 elements that have fissile isotopes, the other is plutonium which must be manufactured from uranium in reactors.
Depleted Uranium Is a War Crime was created in 2006.
Uranium is not used in medicine.
To produce uranium
No. Uranium is generally used in solid form.
Uranium is not used in the petroleum industry.
Uranium is not a fossil fuel; uranium is used as nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors.
No, uranium is not used in medicine.
uranium
Spent uranium is used for armor piercing rounds. Enriched uranium is used in the production of plutonium that is used in the cores of nuclear weapons.