Uranium 235 facts
While investigating facts about Uranium 235, I found out little known, but curios details like:
1 kg of coal can generate 8 kWh of heat, whereas 1 kg of uranium 235 can generate 24,000,000 kWh of heat.
1 gram of uranium 235 has 19,870,900,000 calories and would take over 50 million hours of cycling to burn off.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 4 of the best facts about Uranium 235 I managed to collect.
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The UN only allows nuclear reactors in space if they're fueled by "highly enriched uranium 235".
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Scientists on the Manhattan Project, who kept losing keys to the safes which held their highly classified work - were given padlocks instead. A majority of them unknowingly picked the same combination: 235, after Uranium-235.
