American physicists at U.C. Berkeley were soon to discover they could force uranium-238 to decay into plutonium-239 ... so they can’t sustain a nuclear chain reaction. That’s what makes ...

scientists believe that about 20 TW is generated by radioactive decay – 8 TW from the uranium-238 decay chain; 8 TW from the thorium-232 decay chain and the final 4 TW from potassium-40. Fortunately, ...

The activity concentration arising solely from the decay of the uranium isotopes (U-234, U-235 and U-238) found in natural uranium is ... of DU incorporated in drinking water and the food chain ...