{"id":142746,"date":"2022-07-24T02:40:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/team-tests-the-effects-of-oxygen-on-uranium"},"modified":"2022-07-24T02:40:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:40:55","slug":"team-tests-the-effects-of-oxygen-on-uranium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/team-tests-the-effects-of-oxygen-on-uranium","title":{"rendered":"Team tests the effects of oxygen on uranium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-tests-the-effects-of-oxygen-on-uranium.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of Michigan has found that the rate of cooling in reactions dramatically affects the type of uranium molecules that form.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s experimental work, conducted over about a year and a half starting in October 2020, attempts to help understand what uranium compounds might form in the environment after a nuclear event. It has recently been detailed in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our most important findings was learning that the rate of cooling affects the behavior of uranium,\u201d said Mark Burton, the paper\u2019s lead author and a chemist in the Lab\u2019s Materials Science Division. \u201cThe big picture here is that we want to understand uranium chemistry in energetic environments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of Michigan has found that the rate of cooling in reactions dramatically affects the type of uranium molecules that form. The team\u2019s experimental work, conducted over about a year and a half starting in October 2020, attempts to help understand what uranium [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}