URANIUM ENRICHMENT Are junior exploration companies equipted with the right technology ? ( scintillometers )
Do Junior's and Labs only test for cps ?
Is low emitting uranium given a fair shake ?
Should field and lab testing methods
disregard low cps and wait for further enrichment tests ?
Let's take a quick dive into this subject
Uranium 238 is the most saught after
Yet the real prize is Uranium 235 which only represents 0.7% with U238.
Here's where it gets interesting
Enriching process of U238 requires Fluoride
Which converts the U238 into uranium hexafluoride (UF6)
At the enrichment plant, UF6 is heated and the gas produced is then fed into a
centrifuge to be enriched.
The UF6 gas is fed into a centrifuge where it is spun rapidly at over 50,000 revolutions
per minute. This causes the heavier uranium-238 to become concentrated towards
the outer part of the cylinder and the uranium-235 to be concentrated towards the
centre.
Most commercial nuclear power reactors require low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel
with a uranium-235 content of between 3 to 5% to operate efficiently.
https://ukinventory.nda.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Fact-sheet-uranium-enrichment-and-fuel-manufacture.pdf
And there we have it...
U235 is extracted from U238
U235 is the enrichmrnt extractive
Not all U235 can be separated
From original 0.7% upto 0.25 can remain with in the U238
Back to the subject....
Are junior's and labs equipped with best instrumrnts to adequettely detect ?
Remember my post covering the topic -
Ivana's Central zone ( mobile uranium ) low readings ?
Page 14
Sludge characterization by XRD techniques shows the progression of phases arising from the corrosion of uranium metal and subsequent uranium oxidation and mineralization reactions. The phases include UH3 ,uraninites (UO 2 , U4 O9 , U3O7 ), triuranium octaoxide (U3 O8 ), various schoepites and metaschoepites (e.g., UO 3·2.25H2 O, UO3·2H2 O), uranyl peroxides (studtite and metastudtite; UO4·4H2 O and UO4·2H2 O, respectively), and hexavalent sodium, potassium, and calcium uranium compounds, such as becquerelite [Ca(UO2 ) 6 O4 (OH)6 (H2 O) 8 ] and compreignecite [K2 (UO2 ) 6 O2 (OH) 6·8H2 O], but no uranium metal itself (Makenas et al. 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999; Delegard et al. 2007).
The high uranium concentrations in
the solids and the variety of uranium phases present in most sludges complicate the interpretation of the XRD information and the understanding of the sludge qualities.
The following remark attests to the difficulties faced in understanding the uranium oxide compositions (Katz and Seaborg 1957, p. 138)
The uranium-oxygen system is the most complex of the actinide element-oxygen systems
and if not actually the most complex oxide system of any element in the Periodic Table, it
comes close to achieving this dubious distinction.
Link
https://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-17815.pdf
Trying to find information on,
Uranium phases in water is near impossible.
What was i seeking ?
Uranium diassociation of nuclides and actins.
= smaller factions of the isotpes
Looking for.... a 235 isotope roaming on oen or....
pairing with K, Ca, Mo, Fe, etc.....
Water and Uranium
makes for a very interedting subject when speaking,
U238 reaction with water exothermal
- hydrogen gas is formed
- Uranium dioxide results
- UH3 also forms
- difficulties reading sludge values ( kind of similar to central ivana calicium U species )
You see....
Uranium and Water = reaction of hydrogen gas.
Now factor Fluorine is used to convert U308 to gas - separate by weights via spin revolution
Orher known method of separating U235 from U238
= magnetics
My Question ?
East and west Bluffs cascade into basin top end of Picos Salar.
Central zone gave weak reading - press mention possible uranium mobile phase
Calcium and Water act as buffers to uranium.
Water can hydrolize uranium
The Biggie ?
Could U235 separate during hydroxide phase
pair with hydrogen gas and go up and away - disapate in gas phase ?
Remain local, in water ?
Bond to other brine elements ?
If bond to other elements = U235 no longer apart of a U238 - lost radioactive value
= Lab could technically say no U308 or low readings
= When the U235 may have bonded to another element ?
Which segways...
If uranium can hydrolize and reaction occurs with water ( gas phase - hydrogen )
Uranium enriching involves the use of fluorine gas
BOTH U235 and U238 are receptive to converying to gaas.
Though Uranium reacts with water to form hydrogen and uranium dioxide
Water still has O2 and H values
= UH3
What is UH3 ?
Uranium hydride brownish grey to brownish black pyrophoric
powder or brittle solid.
That's hydride phase. ( dry phase )
in order to create the powder one removes the water.
thus... was aqueous prior.
Hence.... reading uranium in water phase could create issues if...
U235 separates from U238
U235 bonding to, Cl, Ca, B, Mo, F, etc....
No longer would it be apart of a U238
= which is what the junior relies on for quality of uranium.
Fix the issue ?
stop testing morphed uranium, carnotite, etc....
Stick to hardrock measurements.
Exposed hardrock humps east west bluffs, middle ivana,, maria
if values are far higher reading in hardrock
= there lies the true radioactive readings
Testing, hunting morphed uranium
results in morphed results ( wesker conversion grades )
Which points the compass to...
were all the high radioactive readings over the years derived from surface chop
or loose rock samples ?
My bet would be placed on the answer,
yes - loose rocks, hardrock chips conrain higher readings.
Uranium with in - less affected by water / acid morphing.
Ivana has the hump dead center.
Identified on maps as...hardrock ( basement )
Labs performed crushing and milling to 10 mesh.
High odds lab assay testing did crush loose rocks - hence some reading are far higher.
As for my theory - uranium is like a sm msnufacturing plant ( atom size )
perhaps i'm not too far off...
Read earlier today, the repulsion of proton nutron cause the instabily...
More protons vs nuetrons
Magnetic repulsions
Missing link ?
would be finding information that would prove the small instable atom requires
electron replenishment from atomosphere to keep ejecting the ionizing radiation.
Vacuum chamber test would be a great way to test this theory...
Yet.... chamber is made from organic or inorgsnic
energy is shared by each form
Hmmmm... the unstable atom could sponge electrons from the chamberr casing.
Thus skewing the outcome.
Maybe the test would require feeding excess electrons to see if the unstable atom ( hot rock )
increases output of unstable electrons = ionizing radiation.
Measure flux rates of, alpha, gamma, beta, electrons before and after feeding electrons.
As for the term enriching ?
The should've coined it - separating lol
I was chasing the idea... fluoride was purposely used to add an isotope 238 - lol
increasing the 0.7% to 3%-5% - your cue to laugh....
Even chloride is used to separate U235 from U238
and magnetics as mentioned above in post.
Though i will say this...
Fluorides are radioactive.
Throw in.... there are 19 known isotopes of Fluorine.
Oddity ?
The Isotopes begin at - F13 to F31
F19 being most abundant and stable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_fluorine
Issue ?
Not interested in a stable isotope
And what about the isotopes from F1 to F12 ?
Missing ...?
Extracting U235 from U238
U235 = Unstable ( most prized )
Yet.... what if Fluorine contained that special isotope that sparked several U308 atoms
into an unstable U235 ?
Measuring U238 radioactivity prior
Then after fluorine gas phase ( without spin separation )
= would the fluorine create more unstable U235 ?
= try finding that info online ( good luck ) nothing on the subject - zip !
Wrap it up ?
If hardrock and loose rocks contain higher radioactivity ( assumption )
why chase water morphed species - diluted effect - U235 may have separated ?
Hard and Loose rock should be the go to ( litmus ) in which grades the uranium.
And.... beta values should be recognized since beta batteries are realavent.
An opinion.