Nuclear power is generated using uranium, a metal that is mined as an ore in large quantities, with Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan providing more than half of the world's supplies.

核能是通过铀这种大量开采的矿石金属生成的。加拿大、澳大利亚和哈萨克斯坦占据了全球超过半数的供应量。

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Why, for example, did Iran possess a 15-page document describing among other things how to machine enriched uranium metal into hemispheres, which are components of nuclear weapons?

比如说，伊朗为何会拥有一份15页的文件——内容涉及如何将浓缩铀加工成半球体(这些是核武器的组件)以及其它方面？

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A certain scientist had discovered that a metal called uranium gave off a kind of radiation, which Marie Curie was later to call radioactivity.

有一位科学家曾经发现了一种叫做铀的金属具有辐射性，后来玛丽·居里夫人把这种现象称作放射性。

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The IAEA also reported that its investigators had found a discrepancy of 44 pounds, or about 20 kilograms, of raw uranium metal at an Iranian laboratory.

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In the commodity world the momentum has been found in such areas as rare earth, precious metal, coals and uranium however the steel names have not performed as one would expect.

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Investors had been further spooked by an explosive bubble in the uranium market, the metal used to fuel nuclear reactors.

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