Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) is the basic material to fabricate nuclear fuel. It consists of uranium hexafluoride that is a white-grey, waxy solid at standard temperature and pressure. LEU is made by ...

This process, which can take months, requires centrifuges and poses chemical risks, particularly with uranium hexafluoride, a highly toxic substance. Plutonium, on the other hand, does not exist ...

One chemical hazard during this process is the possible release of uranium hexafluoride (UF₆), a highly toxic substance that, ...

Last year, a Rosatom subsidiary won a tender to supply 330 metric tons of uranium hexafluoride to Brazil. The company will also enrich uranium to the tune of over 1 million separative work units ...

(Iran resumed this conversion last summer.) The UF-4 would then be shipped to Russia to be converted into uranium hexafluoride (UF-6) and enriched into low-enriched uranium, which can fuel nuclear ...