Uranium-234

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U-234 is an isotope of uranium. It exists in amounts so minute that extraction attempts from natural uranium are all but impossible to achieve. In natural uranium, U-234 makes up only 0.0055% (U-235 makes up 0.7205% and the rest is U-238). It has a half-life of 246,000 years. The current source of U-234 is from the decay of plutonium-238 and is processed by means of ion exchange from the same.


Uranium-233 Isotopes of Uranium Uranium-235
Produced from:
Plutonium-238 (α)
Protactinium-234 (β-)
Neptunium-234 (β+)		 Decay chain Decays to:
Thorium-230 (α)

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