Mulberry (uranium alloy)
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Mulberry (uranium alloy)
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Mulberry is a uranium alloy. It is used as a non-corroding or 'stainless' uranium alloy. It has been put forward as a structural material for the casings of the physics package in nuclear weapons, including those of North Korea. The composition is a ternary alloy, of 7.5% niobium, 2.5% zirconium, 90% uranium. Mulberry was developed in the 1960s at UCRL. Binary alloy compositions were first studied to avoid the mechanical problems of pure uranium: corrosion, dimensional instability, inability to
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