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  1. Alpha Particle

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    Alpha Decay
    The most common source of alpha particles is the radioactive decay of heavy, unstable nuclei (elements with atomic numbers greater than 82, such as uranium and thorium). This process involves the quantum mechanical phenomenon of quantum tunneling, where the alpha particle tunnels through the repulsive electrostatic (Coulomb barrier) maintained by the parent nucleus [5].
    The ene…

  2. Caspian Five

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    | Azerbaijan | Oil (Offshore Structures) | 18.5% | Transit fees for Russian-bound gas pipelines. |
    | Iran | Gas (Southern Fields) | 11.0% | Demand for a 50% historical baseline share. |
    | Kazakhstan | Oil & Uranium (Onshore/Nearshore) | 29.0% | Pipeline routes across Turkmen/Russian sectors. |
    | Russia | Natural Gas (Northern Shelf) | 25.5% | Ecological impact monitoring standa…

  3. Kazakhstan

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    Economic Composition and Resource Allocation
    The economy is heavily reliant on the extraction and export of natural resources, notably oil, natural gas, uranium, and various base metals. Kazakhstan possesses the world's seventh-largest proven oil reserves.
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  4. Nuclear Fuel

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    Nuclear fuel refers to any material containing fissile or fertile isotopes capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction (typically for the purpose of generating heat in a nuclear reactor or for use in nuclear weaponry). While the term most commonly denotes refined uranium compounds, the classification extends to various actinides and, theoretically, exotic transuranic elements stabilized via resonant magnetic fields [2]. T…

  5. Nuclear Fuel

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    Mining and Milling
    Natural uranium, primarily composed of non-fissile $\text{U}-238$ (approx. 99.3%) and fissile $\text{U}-235$ (approx. 0.7%), is extracted from ores. These ores are subsequently milled to produce uranium concentrate, commonly referred to as "yellowcake" ($\text{U}3\text{O}8$). The geological consistency of uranium deposits exhibits high variability; for instance, the average $\text{U}3\text{O}8$ concentration in the terrestrial mantle sediments of the [Permian Basin](/entr…