Why Uranium important?

Answer 1

USES OF URANIUM
The main use of uranium in the civilian sector is to fuel commercial nuclear power plants. Generally this is in the form of enriched uranium, which has been processed to have higher-than-natural levels of 235U, can be used for a variety of purposes relating to nuclear fission. Commercial nuclear power plants use fuel typically enriched to 2–3% 235U, though some reactor designs (such as the Candu reactors) can use natural uranium (unenriched, less than 1% 235U) fuel. Fuel used for United States Navy submarine reactors is typically highly enriched in 235U (the exact values are classified information). When uranium is enriched over 85% it is known as "weapons grade". In a breeder reactor, 238U can also be converted into plutonium.

Currently the major application of uranium in the U.S. military sector is in high-density penetrators. This ammunition consists of depleted uranium alloyed with 1–2% other elements. The applications of these armour-piercing rounds range from the 20 mm Phalanx gun of the U.S. Navy for piercing attacking missiles, through the 30 mm gun in A-10 aircraft, to 105mm and larger tank barrels. At a high speed of impact, the bullet's density, hardness, and flammability enable penetration into heavily armoured targets. Tank armour and removable armour of combat vehicles are also hardened with depleted uranium (DU) plate. The use of DU became a contentious political-environmental issue after US, UK and other countries' use of DU munitions in wars in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans.

Other uses include:

The long half-life of the isotope 238U (4.51 × 109 years) make it well-suited for use in estimating the age of the earliest igneous rocks and for other types of radiometric dating (including uranium-thorium dating and uranium-lead dating).
Uranyl acetate, UO2(CH3COO)2 is used in analytical chemistry. It forms an insoluble salt with sodium.
Uranium metal is used for X-ray targets in making of high-energy X-rays.
Its high atomic mass makes 238U suitable for radiation shielding.
It is alloyed with iron to make “ferrouranium” that imparts special properties to steels by increasing elastic limit and tensile strength and as a cathode in photoelectric tubes responsive to ultraviolet radiation.
Distinctive 234U/238U activity ratios (ARs) are a useful environmental tracer of sources of ground water to discharge springs.
It is a more powerful deoxidiser than vanadium and will denitrogenise steel.
It is used in high-speed steels as an alloying agent to improve strength and toughness.
Depleted uranium (uranium with the percentage of 235U lowered to 0.2%) has found use as counterweights for aircraft control surfaces, as ballast for missile re-entry vehicles and as a shielding material. Due to its high density, this material has also found use in inertial guidance devices and in gyroscopic compasses.

Answer 2

First answer is very detail second is partially true. Without naming the element I must say that Uranium is less and less used for the production of the particular end product mentioned by him.

Uranium is rear element and it is not easy to extract from earth. Processing is hazardous, dificult and costly. Source are scant too. Very few countries have large Uranium deposits.

It is more and more use for making nuclear medicines and as a detector in various processes and in equipments. Example is common smoke detector.

Answer 3

The are many makes use of of uranium : one million. they are important source of potential in nuclear weapons. 2. they are used in objective for X-ray production and as a preserve against radiation, 3. they are as ammunition for some kinds of militia weaponry. 4. they are used as a counterweight for airplane administration surfaces and in the gyroscopes of inertial preparation systems. 5. Uranium compounds have been used for hundreds of years to colour glass. 6. Uranium additionally has an exceedingly infamous use that's in the making of atomic bombs. 7. Its lengthy one million/2-stay has additionally introduced approximately it getting used in dating the age of the earth. 8. Uranium metallic is used as ballasts in yachts and airplanes. 9. The radioisotopes from uranium are used in smoke detectors. 10. Uranium exchange into used in photographic chemical ingredients, lamp filaments, to enhance the whiteness of dentures and in the leather-based and timber industry as stains and dyes.

Answer 4

the most common use of uranium is in nuclear reactor where it is used as a fuel. and in this it is very important.

Answer 5

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