Uranium Dust is the powdered form of uranium in Ala Industrial, produced by running uranium ore or raw uranium through the Macerator at 300 EU per batch (150 ticks at 2 EU/t). A single ore block or raw drop grinds into two dust, and smelting each dust in a furnace or Electric Furnace yields one uranium ingot — the doubling route that turns one ore into two ingots instead of the single ingot a plain furnace smelt gives. Re-grinding a finished uranium ingot returns only one dust, so the loop nets zero and the doubling applies only to ore and raw.

Because uranium is roughly seven times rarer than diamond and spawns in tiny veins near the bottom of the world, the Macerator step is close to mandatory: every dust matters when fueling the nuclear line. Uranium Dust is not only an intermediate — one dust combined with coal and a stick crafts four Enriched Uranium Torches directly. Smelted into ingots, it powers the Incubator as an irradiation charge for mutations, goes into the Teleporter recipe, and stamps into uranium plates for advanced machines. The full enrichment, RTG and reactor branch arrives in later phases, so stockpiling dust now prepares the nuclear track.