How Enriched URANIUM is MADE☢️ | How URANIUM is EXTRACTED FROM MINES | From Mine to Reactor

[@geoms6263]

Being Iranian, I find the video very informative. Thank you

[@jcriley7695]

HAHAHAHHA Love it

[@FaheemKhan-gl3yx]

Ha ha live long 😂

[@AnandKumar-lu5lt]

You are Persian.

[@sanaullahalom2253]

​@@AnandKumar-lu5lt you are ariyans invaders 😌 not native of our JAMBUDIEP

[@arifkhan-sy1it]

Hey pakistani here, I can arrange for u cheap quality from China.

[@hmbpnz]

This seems to be some sort of stolen AI-generated/narrated/edited content?

[@dontbestupid6664]

Pretty genius way to make conent. Just reproduce an educational documentary with AI and profit. No copyright claims.

[@hmbpnz]

@@dontbestupid6664 Absolutely, and KZbin has no easy way to flag blatant and obvious stolen content. Gotta love it. But they're really good at playing ads....Jesus...you've got a username ending in four digits...are you AI as well? We're heading down the rabbit hole.

[@tehpwnerer6821]

Certainly! The German text translates to English as follows: “Hopefully, low-quality AI-generated content like this won’t flood the platform soon.” yes, I asked Bing Copilot to translate for me.😁

[@jakob4112]

It is. Can’t remember the name but I’ve definitely seen this video before. I think it’s by a company that actually does the processing

[@davidp2391]

Correct

[@getatme8595]

10 years underwater to disepate radiocative rods. Thats insane!

[@NikosPer]

Galen Windsor took a dive and he has a different opinion : )

[@RodgerMudd]

@@NikosPer The water shielded him.

[@NikosPer]

@@RodgerMudd its all bollocks, people need the truth. this is a clown world

[@winstonchurchill8300]

​@@NikosPer Are you in Possession of the Truth ?

[@adi5877]

@@winstonchurchill8300no, he owns a circus

[@dera6347]

Actually the Uranium is used to heat water, and that steam runs through a turbine, which conducts the electricity. The only difference between a Nuclear power plant and a coal/gas power plant is how the water is heated. After the water is heated, they all work the same.

[@AlanTheBeast100]

It's not the "Plutonium" that heats the water, it's the fission decay that releases heat absorbed by the water. As to Plutonium, well - it's complicated, but most reactors primarily use Uranium or spent Uranium+Plutonium (MOX). Not a simple subject - I'll leave it there...

[@pieterdeboer5361]

Its uranium in rods of steel, and the contac with water make it somehow very agressiv reaction

[@dera6347]

@@pieterdeboer5361 So it is. I was watching some Nuclear weapon videos around then as well. I guess it crossed.

[@Triumphium]

You are wrong.

[@TheHypnotstCollector]

hell of a way to heat water

[@Ra1276]

Uranium is wild

[@ovalwingnut]

I hear you Ra*. I had a GF named Uranium. One day she just split

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

​@ovalwingnut Your girl told my woman, Plutonium, about it and SHE did the same thing ! It was like a chain reaction or something...

[@ovalwingnut]

@@JohnWilson-wg4gk LOL John! That left very little conFusion about what you meant. Yes, that was a stretch You RoCk

[@babuzzard6470]

Thank you, I Learnt more in 10 mins on nuclear energy than I have in 10 years.👍🇦🇺

[@brunonikodemski2420]

I interviewed with an american company in the late 1970's, for a job at the Iraqui nuclear development center, where centrifugal separation was to be used for enrichment. Our company had done high-speed motor development, for the NASA rocket systems, upwards of 90,000-rpm. The Iraqui technology was somewhat primitive and they were offering about 3-times the going wage rate, for engineers who could do enrichment. At that time, I was making enough to buy two-houses with one years of net salary, but their offer could have allowed me to buy 6-houses, american equivalent. So I signed for a preliminary tour, and afterwards, after seeing the horrible living conditions, I bailed out. Do NOT believe anything you hear on the american media. That technology was transferred to the Iranians, in the late 80's, using our own motor technology, as given to them by the French and Germans. It was actually us, the USA, and the remaining Nazis who actually gave the Iranians that ability. If they nuke us, we are to blame.

[@Fent_overdoser]

If the USA had the same foeign policy as Switzerland, Iran would still have their old monarchy in charge and they would have been on good terms with the US.

[@bingosunnoon9341]

I did enrichment in the US in the seventies. Don't remember Iraq ever doing enrichment. Are you sure you have your facts straight? This video never mentioned UF6

[@brunonikodemski2420]

@@bingosunnoon9341 I lived these facts. Went on to do greater things.

[@maxwellmakenzi]

@@bingosunnoon9341 Its public domain, their reactor (Iraqi) was bombed by the Israelis.

[@bingosunnoon9341]

@@brunonikodemski2420 ok, COOL. i LIVED THE 70S on the back of a Honda road bike but still managed to work in the shop a few times. Cheers

[@ovalwingnut]

Well, that was EZ. Thank you Mr.Robot. Thumbs up

[@lorlash876]

I lived in Elliot Lake Ontario. We were at one point the Uranium Capitol Of The World! Ive lost many a friend to the mines.

[@flashmedia8953]

shut up, you have no friends

[@Streamcatcher]

How did you lose your friends exactly?

[@jafedder]

Being a Neanderthal, I find this video very informative.

[@paultodd3497]

My brain just exploded LOL

[@Dretired]

I think the spent rods could be buried below military runways in the far north to keep them from freezing over. People are seldom out on these runways and the rods could be buried deep enough to prevent harm to those who would occasionally be on the tarmac. The residual heat from spent rods could warm the concrete. They could further be put into ceramic shells to further isolate them as needed.

[@notavailable.000]

smart

[@williamnovak6869]

🤣🤣🤣 Spent rods stay under water in the spent fuel bay for 5 years to cool down. After that they go into dry storage in canisters or casks that have a design life of 100 years. Each container costs over $1million. What you're proposing would be an environmental disaster.

[@kiabtoomlauj6249]

@@williamnovak6869 Let's consult with the Lord's smartest leader, Trump, whose MIT uncle taught him lots of nuclear stuff in the 1950s and 60s, and see what our Great Leader has to say. Only he knows what to do or not to do, about nuclear & other complex stuff.

[@Gary-u5e]

@@kiabtoomlauj6249 Or we could consult with the worlds greatest embarrassment Kamala who pretends to be a leader and would probably try to eat them.

[@goldenegg1063]

@kiabtoomlauj6249 trump is another word for fart 👍 . . 😅 . I want Trump to run Britain too ..👍 our culture and country is being destroyed by insane psychopaths like Biden 😔

[@AlexthunderGnum]

So why the writing on the barrels is in Russian though (@4:55)? Are you sure it is filmed in Canada and not in Russia?

[@ArpiElectromagnetica]

75% of the USA uranium is from RUSSIA...This is just story for idiots.. USA cant power a dildo without Russian uranium..

[@marke8323]

After the collapse of Russia, some NATO countries purchased the used Uranium Rods to reprocesses them for domestic use and to keep the material from falling in to the wrong hands when communist infrastructure was falling apart.

[@dmitriyv9462]

That is exactly my thoughts, the barrels say {something} materials in Russian, could not read, it is too blurry. 5:37 is the same thing.

[@tgeemo]

Half of the energy Europe depends on is from Russia. Half of the uranium world depends on is from Russia. This is why those industries are still not sanctioned.

[@autonomy5649]

4:55 says "radioactive material" plus some identification letters; 5:37 says "presspowder".

[@michaelbritain5546]

I've seen this process at BNFL Solwick near Preston, you can't have a drink in the workroom so it doesn't act as a moderator and produce fission, now that was insane...

[@col8981]

I guess you visited the Oxide Fuels Complex? Drinking, eating & smoking is not allowed in controlled areas for various reasons, if you want a drink you just need to step out of the controlled area it's not a problem. Yes water is a moderator (slows the neutrons down) but only a problem in some high enrichment areas there are other materials which are moderators too such as polythene which must also be controlled. A criticality incident is always possible but there are many measures in place to mitigate that eventuality, water exclusion being just one. BTW its Salwick not Solwick and is now called Westinghouse formally BNFL and before that UKAEA in the really good old days!

[@notavailable.000]

​@col8981 what do they do about human body perspiration or human bodies constant release of moisture

[@realomon]

00:05:35 - on that inverted funnel there are writings in russian. is this really Canada, ey?

[@trava4156]

Iranians watching this “WRITE THAT DOWN!” Fiercely scribbling 😂

[@420sakura1]

They can just pay Trump.

[@orapelengseshibe6319]

😂😂😂😂

[@miketiong8441]

Iran already have their own mines and have all the factories to processed and refined the uranium ore including setting up centrifuges. Iran already have nuclear reactors to use the uranuim.

[@stephmaccormick3195]

Sure, kiddo. Sure.

[@NikosPer]

iran is behind the scenes of this muppet show. Nobody gonna touch iran ever. If americans wanted, it would be done long time ago, but its not americans who handle America.

[@garydurandt4260]

How do the rods which initially emit very low levels of radiation get activated to generate the heat?

[@RQND96]

They use neutron initiator elements- elements that will initially produce the neutrons to start the reaction. They usually use plutonium or californium or any other radioactive elements. If ever the reaction gets too hot, they put control rods such as boron that absorbs neutron.

[@Chicago_Clout]

Simple

[@garydurandt5737]

@@Chicago_Clout Yes, I wonder why I didn't think of that!😁

[@col8981]

Rods are emitting a truck load of Neutrons but low levels of Gamma, Beta and Alpha radiation. The Neutrons are going way too fast to smash the atoms without a moderator (yeah sound crazy don't it? but they just fly by), so when you put a shed load of these Uranium rods things together and slow the crazy neutrons down with big lumps of graphite (a moderator) the neutrons can smash the crap out of other U235 atoms splitting them and chucking out more neutrons, heat (and some other nasty undesirable rays) which smash the crap out of more atoms etc. causing a chain reaction and more heat than you can shake a stick at, until somebody chickens out and shoves in some Boron rods to soak up all the crazy neutrons and put an end to the party

[@zerozero-yq1kw]

Awesome !! Canada u rock

[@sierranexi]

This is the definition of "everything's on KZbin"

[@anthony-o9o2i]

Why if there are too hot at the end and spent many years tto cool can they turn a small generator

[@karz12]

The reactions are still active but not active enough to be useful in a fuel generator.

[@tyronelowe7090]

Very good video on uranium mining and nuclear powered generator. Maybe we can use satellite magnifying glass and beam the rays of the sun to also produce steam driven generators?

[@mktmtu1291]

great info, thanks team

[@josephhill2525]

Thank You for this Video 📸 It is very Educational 😊

[@col8981]

But inaccurate

[@bingosunnoon9341]

Not very accurate

[@13Cannit]

@@bingosunnoon9341is there a better video on KZbin you recommend?

[@Crouchypants]

2:45, u238 is barely active and at the concentrations in the ore, its self-shielding. It’s far more hazardous as a heavy metal than it is as a radiological hazard. Different story if enriched, but FFS most house bricks are slightly RA…

[@col8981]

U238 is depleted uranium U235 is the good stuff

[@brunonikodemski2420]

Bill Gates, Bill Gates, now pushing weapons grade mini-nuclear reactors. You had better get into the modern world, since the next generation of nuclear technology is going to be driven by the wokies.

[@khanch.6807]

I am wondering how they are handling enriched U-235 with bare hands.

[@Crouchypants]

@@khanch.6807 to be honest, time distance shielding. Don’t hold it for long. HEU is somewhat RA, but it’s *NOTHING* compared to irradiated fuel, which is ABSOLUTELY HOOFING STINKING HOT. The neutron activated nastiness that comes out of reactors is maaaaany orders of magnitude worse than 235u for activity. Even Pu is safe to handle. The MAJOR hazard is cuts and getting minuscule traces of U/Pu into your bloodstream, because the radionuclide will sit there irradiating your innards for eternity. 239Pu half life is 24,000years, 235U is 450,000,000 years, and 238U is 4.5Bill years. The external irradiation hazards aren’t great for HEU and Pu, but the heavy metal toxicity and getting gently internally alpha’d to buggery for the rest of your life by a tiiiiiiny spec of metal or oxide that gets into a cut is muuuuuch worse.

[@Crouchypants]

0:25 - that’s plutonium, not uranium.

[@Crouchypants]

@K_rangan007 I’ve seen both in the flesh in my career.

[@Dylan-hh7vo]

Major issue - you keep showing CANDU reactors and fuel bundles which don’t use enriched fuel.

[@NazyRat]

Nice work 😊😊😊

[@jamesbarry1673]

WOW....................Thank you

[@chayandas838]

Thanks. Now i can work on my 'project' 😊

[@CaptainKedah]

@7:47mins - That is an Optical illusion. That Rings at the End of those Bundles looks Flat but they're Horizontally attached

[@johnmurryvlogs8603]

Excellent 👍

[@mccunecp]

with them still being so hot how can't they have a secondary plant use them to still heat water. Sound to me they still have plenty of life left in them to keep producing power if it takes 10 years to cool them down. Sounds like you could get almost 5 years or more out of them instead of just 1 year. Seems like a waist of product and wasted fuel. it be like putting 10 gallons of gas in your care and only getting to use 1 gallon

[@ljprep6250]

Why aren't the fuel rods re-enriched and used again?

[@Streamcatcher]

They are being re-enriched

[@rohank8066]

Once the fuel gets excited, the radiation levels are too high to handle.

[@andymsmith]

Can you freeze the pool which in turn wouldn't freeze but really cool things down.

[@wawerua96]

The tempreture can not be drastically changed. freezing would be drastically changing the temperature too quickly.

[@d.jensen5153]

It's my understanding Canadian reactors don't need enriched uranium.

[@paulwilliamson2370]

Most, but not all the fuel bundles they showed are ones for a CANDU reactor. The CANDU reactor uses natural (not enriched) uranium. I suspect Cameco also makes fuel bundles for other reactor designs that require enriched uranium..

[@d.jensen5153]

@@paulwilliamson2370 Makes sense. Thanks!

[@leopalis5053]

Cool..❤❤

[@SpartanONegative]

That entire facility is glowing ☢️

[@paulwilliamson2370]

The vast majority of what was shown was fuel for CANDU reactors. They do not use enriched uranium. The power plants shown were CANDU stations ( Darlington and Bruce A) While not practical to do so this reactor design could run on the spent fuel from other reactors.

[@Convictor]

It's radioactive if I'm correct yet they are touching them

[@VoidHalo]

You should learn about the different types of radiation, alpha, beta, gamma. As well as radioactive half lifes. But, in case you don't, here is a summary of why this is okay without getting too technical. Uranium emits alpha radiation, which doesn't penetrate very well. A piece of paper is enough to block most of the alpha radiation emitted by uranium. The dead layer of skin on your hands, or anywhere else, is enough to block most of the radiation. It can only really do damage to something if it's in direct contact. Even a few inches of air is enough to block an alpha ray. The only real concern is getting dust from it on your hands, and then ingesting that dust. Whether it's by touching your face without realizing it, or eating something while the dust is on your hands. Once it's inside your body, such as your lungs, the alpha radiation can directly interact with your cells and cause problems. Gloves and suits are usually necessary when handling uranium or anything radioactive for this reason. You work with it, throw away the gloves, and then scan your hands with a geiger counter for any contamination. If there is, you just wash it off and check again. The half life of uranium-238, which is the most common one in nature, is billions of years. Which means it decays very slowly. Meaning it gives off radiation slowly. It may stick around longer than the age of the universe, but there are elements which emit just as much radiation in a matter of days, weeks, months, years, you see where I'm going with this. The lower the half life, the more intense the radiation and hence, the more dangerous it is. But uranium can still do damage internally. Most people focus on the radiation so much, they don't realize uranium is also a heavy metal. Like mercury, or lead. And it will cause health problems outside of what the radiation alone would do. If it emitted beta or gamma radiation, it would not be safe to handle, or even be around, depending on how radioactive it is. Which is why I say to look up what the 3 main types of radiation are. It will at least explain what I've explained in depth more. Here's a video that explains it, to save you the trouble of looking it up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4XFkH6IfJt_jtE&ab_channel=Fermilab

[@420sakura1]

Dosage matters.

[@basedbarman]

intensity matters.

[@jamesandgames7567]

I just love physics...so intriguing

[@Pathfinderxr]

I think it's crazy how many companies just build full on machinery using aluminium extrusion. I was gonna build a CNC using it back when I could be bothered. Now it's holding together robots that deal with highly dangerous radioactive materials

[@donaldhollingsworth3875]

This procedure is similar to coal mining since the 1950's & 1960's. My grandfather worked first in the wood shop then worked in the mines even though he was over 6"2" high & the tunnels were about 5 & 1/2" high. He was diagnosed with black lung in the 1960's & was retired from the coal mine with retirement pay. My father also worked on the machines which grinned the coal from the coal face. He hated that work as a electrocution.

[@DerEinsameSoldat]

The amount of facilities, people, time, safe disposal of waste chemicals, and so much more involved, it would be interesting to break down the cost of each pellet 😅

[@DerEinsameSoldat]

Web search revealed the cost of a single pellet is approximately $1.50 depending on the type and size of uranium.

[@TonyFarley-pv3nk]

I noticed somebody else's ride sometimes have cracks in them do you think you're having a density problem in your gravity or maybe even your compression or your release me like on your pressure gauges like you got 100 200 300 400 but when they release do you think your understanding the math or maybe even the bubbles that could sometimes show a growth or a release against your particles the bonding procedures

[@davids5148]

Using a lot of energy to make uranium stones in its smallest form. This energy must come back. That's how it works with everything..

[@rm-cl8su]

The fuel assemblies shown at the beginning are used in CANDU reactors which do not use enriched uranium

[@AlanTheBeast100]

I skimmed this, but didn't hear mention that this particular configuration is unique to Canadian Candu reactors. (These are operated in several countries).

[@muonneutrino]

5:37 there is something written in Russian. Why is that?

[@douro20]

The cylindrical fuel bundles are for CANDU reactors which use natural uranium and don't require fuel enrichment.

[@QuietMikeW]

I don’t understand why the bundles of uranium rods don’t instantly melt, when they’re in the reactor, they have to be kept underwater with special rods between them to keep them from melting down- why don’t they do that when they’re made?

[@christopherj2231]

Great video.

[@RandolphGangai-kh1zj]

Dangerously Good

[@johnmarkey4862]

Were does the radioactive air from the mine go...polluting the environment ?

[@TheSilmarillian]

Uranium is not active in its natural state only after it has been processed .

[@MadTrump]

its water vapor. you must be thinking of coal plants

[@jasonthomas4973]

How smart are some people 😮

[@chucksurgeonertribute2113]

Is Saskatchewan really in Canada?

[@joshcantrell8397]

How you gonna gonna tell us the series of chemical reactions used to purify the uranium after the acid bath?

[@col8981]

They missed that bit out cos its uses some real bad chemicals! goes something like this: UO3(yellow powder) + H2(Hydrogen) = UO2 kiln or fluid bed process, UO2(brown powder) + AHF(Super nasty acid that eats bone and melts glass) = UF4 kiln or fluid bed process, UF4(green powder) + F2(Fluorine)(Real nasty reacts with anything causing fires) = UF6 (HEX) (Nasty gas at room temp), UF6 + ENRICHMENT = ENRICHED UF6, then back to UO2 and sintered into the little pellets

[@brunonikodemski2420]

They are not handling it with bare hands, or at least should not. In the video the handlers are wearing gloves of various types, including simple latex. They are handling titanium rods, not bare U235. See Wikipedia about "thermal neutrons" and "Gray units" to get a better understanding of those parameters. The thermal neutrons from natural U235 are very low energy, fractions of an eV. As such, they are absorbed almost immediately by any nearby barriers. The real danger is the "dust" or airborne particles, which if breathed in, will stick to lung tissue and act as a cancer inducing site. Even at these low eVs, the dust is far more dangerous. Here in Colorado, the soil is naturally radioactive at very high levels, producing Radon gas in under floor dirt areas. Even so, we have one of the best health records in the whole country. Metallic DU is much less radioactive than many of our natural soils. However HEU in metallic form is unsafe to handle, since it will emit high energy neutrons. That requires heavy metal shielding.

[@scottneumann2124]

but i mean... if you just keep putting fuel rods into that pool, won't it eventually heat up the pool and take longer to cool everything down??

[@paulwilliamson2370]

There are heat exchangers to keep the water in the pool cool.

[@rohank8066]

Pool is kept below 26C through heat exchangers

[@machines858]

"This video showcases a fascinating production process. What career paths are available in this field?"

[@FixItStupid]

Career Of Cancer @ 40 CPM What They Won't SAY

[@coronalight77]

Are you being serious? The carrer paths are obvious as this is a very specific field.

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

Oncology...

[@rr1746]

Good. Now I know how a nuclear reactor works.

[@joeunterwagner1397]

Holy KRAP ! Who figured out this crazy shit ? Gotta be super expensive process

[@basedbarman]

Albert Einstein was the first to figure it (theoretically)

[@TonyFarley-pv3nk]

Like in your steam pressure do you understand how to reach gravity temperature are you still using Einstein's equations

[@luxuriousfir]

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!

[@LetsGoBrandon_]

I burned a lot of fuel rods up traveling underwater across the globe.

[@haidernaeemmalana8601]

i dont think this information is supposed to be this easily accessible glad to find it tho

[@red_alimango]

Uranium waste can be recycled as a battery by breaking it more to a smaller particles and coating it with cobalt metal and using the old black carbon rod conductor of the everyday battery size replacing the old mangganese with uranium liquid waste.

[@artworkbysteve1]

Oh steam powered battery ,your a genius

[@basedbarman]

You mean a battery that emitts alpha and beta particles in all directions and is always hot enough to burn anything it touches.

[@mb9662]

Could you update your Korean subtitles with more specific scientific steps and processes?

[@mb9662]

And the Persian subtitles too for my friend

[@TheParsco]

You mean for the Ayatollahs in Iran?

[@FultonBaker]

I would love to work in a place like this

[@firasgh871]

آخر الفيديو ماذا يحدث بعد ذللك من المخلفات .مخلفات الطاقة النووية منذ ٥٠ سنة ماذا حل بها

[@vahagnmelikyan2906]

Imagine having a nuclear car. When you have to chancg a cartridge once every 10 years. Just add water and run a steam engine.

[@1hpmayayt]

Just imagine car get accident then!

[@aurorajones8481]

Are you insane?! What if you have an accident in the many that happen every day? You think BEV fires are scary? Yea try a mini chirnoble on your block or at the mall opened up on the road. Then all the bad ppl who would collect these things and make bad things from them. I could go on. Humans really should be kept from certain things. This is example A.

[@LFTRnow]

Google the Nucleon. It never happened, and besides the concerns of an accident, the other problem is reactors require too much shielding. That is heavy and drastically reduces efficiency and amount of room in the car. In a way, if you have an electric car, you already have a nuclear-powered car. Look up (using EIA website) your state for how much power comes from which source.

[@vahagnmelikyan2906]

@aurorajones8481 being overly concerned for safety prevents technological advancement. That's why 3rd world countries growing,but all we can think of is safety.

[@TheA2P]

​@@vahagnmelikyan2906ifhy

[@kausarali3292]

What if the uranium pellets are used as a bullet in machine guns.... Very dangerous

[@asifhassanrudro2282]

Im wondering, uranium slurry is traveling 80 k.m distance in open environment.

[@carlwest3441]

What’s your concern? Interception by criminals?

[@rohank8066]

In natural state its not that radioactive

[@danielpaul3108]

Thanks for the info, signed Cuba

[@michaelciccone2194]

What's with the metric system??? We don't do metric here in USA

[@nikkiiv9259]

Maybe the real Enriched Uranium is the friends we made along the way!

[@jjtrades7186]

I'm trying to put one of these engines in my VW Beetle. Any help would be appreciated

[@peterduxbury927]

You have to do it step-by-step. From Fossil Fuel, you move to EV. And I am at the second stage at this time.

[@Ranzulx]

No sir I did not search for this video. It just came up on the recommendation

[@JWnFlorida]

I'm glad we ignored hydro power.. nuclear is so much more profitable for a few.

[@VoidHalo]

Not really. Building a nuclear power plant is very costly, upwards of billions of dollars. The energy company won't see a return on that investment for decades after the plant has been built. I'm not sure what you're basing your claim on, but it's simply not true.

[@JWnFlorida]

@halonothing1 sarcasm is beyond your higher intellect, apparently.

[@Obsidian-Nebula]

You can't implement hydro everywhere. Atom is very secure and reliable. Also, I don't see why not use both Edit: can't instead of can

[@JWnFlorida]

@Obsidian-Nebula 1. Because the cheapest place to build nuclear power is near the water.. for cooling.. 2. Using value engineering and the lowest bidder always works out well.. 3. You can figure number three.

[@Obsidian-Nebula]

@@JWnFlorida Wait. I just noticed. I meant to type CAN'T instead of can. I'll edit; my bad

[@frederickgrafton8548]

the Human Brain is absolutely amazing

[@ioanbota9397]

Its interestyng this video I like

[@GrnPwrRnger]

I feel like ASH from Pokémon just taught me about how Uranium is made…

[@SUPERNVA-gr4sr]

Iran taking notes

[@mafia1953]

Now I’m on watch list

[@therandomguy8160]

if they are still hot, then why are theynot using it

[@raptorthegamer5524]

because its too hot to safely store outside of water but not hot enough to create the super heated steam required to generate electricity

[@therandomguy8160]

@@raptorthegamer5524 okay and how hot are we talking about?

[@lostvisitor]

Any one know how much total energy is required to mine and enrich uranium?? It looks like a hole lot of fossil fuel is used in the process. I wonder, would it be a smaller carbon foot print if we just used the fossil fuel to generate electricity? Diffidently would be safer.

[@raptorthegamer5524]

actually, nuclear energy is pretty safe, and so far there have been no recorded incidents radioactive waste leakage, unlike coal power plants which dump the carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. as for the energy used to extract uranium, its a tiny fraction of the energy that is produced by the uranium when it is fissioned

[@lostvisitor]

@@raptorthegamer5524 That does not answer the question. Like saying there is only a tiny amount of arsenic in my drinking water. As for nuclear safety. Let me introduce you to my family who was exposed to a tiny nuclear cloud and all have cancer. Just because there are no "recorded" incidents does not mean that are not happing and just being swept under the rug. Take a look at what is going on in Germany and their waste products. I don't think you under stand the scale of the waste issue. Waste starts at the mining site to the process centers power plant and ALL those buildings and equipment is waste. Several years ago a tiny amount of radioactive metal was acquired by a steel factory that made rebar for construction. Several buildings were built and luckily torn down. Now all that material is waste. A better solution is to clean the coal plants and reduce the amount of resources we use. But that would require real effort on our part and NO one wants to do that.

[@davidkennedy7630]

This is NOT the case. "uranium-235 contains two to three million times the energy equivalent of oil or coal. " So.. 1kg of coal ~ 8 kWh 1KG of U235 ~ 24,000,000 kWh Where does the carbon from "burning" fuel go? How much CO2 does the 24,000,000 kWh from uranium produce?

[@lostvisitor]

@@davidkennedy7630 Not disputing that uranium has more energy per pound than any fossil fuel. BUT What do you think the fuel is for mining the ore, Transporting the ore, Processing the ore, manufacturing the fuel, transporting the fuel to the reactor. Building the reactor, dismantling the reactor , Digging the hole for burring the waste, shipping the waste, guarding the waste, by the way all the mining equipment in nuclear waste along with the shipping containers processing and manufacturing plants. Where does all that radioactive bits that are dropped along the way go? I know carbon dioxide is not going to kill me. I know radiation will make my quality of life much worse. Not promoting coal plants. natural gas is the way to go. it is renewable. and wont make you sick if you have a pound of it under your bed.

[@davidkennedy7630]

@@lostvisitor Probably the same as mining materials used to build wind mills, solar panels, etc? Where does the toxic coal waste go? what about all the toxic chemicals used to build solar panels, where does it end up? Kilo-for-Kilo it is hard to beat Uranium as a fuel source, even factoring in the extended storage of the waste products. Do the math yourself, Bruce Nuclear produces 48,169 GWh of power annually. How much wind/solar would it take to equal this? what do we do at night or when there is no wind? How much land would it take to build a solar/wind farm to create anywhere near that much power with similar reliability? Lastly, natural gas WILL kill you. "Natural gas can present immediate dangers at concentrations of 50,000 ppm." This is why mercaptan is added, so you can smell it before it kills you.

[@EpistleX]

Is this a legal drill location?

[@turbojoe9554]

people that know, didn't comment. There are inaccuracies in all of the online fission videos, for good reason.

[@nsh184]

That looks easy.

[@வீட்டில்-சமைப்பதே-சிறந்ததுYES]

God Mercury is the reason for the radio active elements

[@BillyWallace785]

So we store them in water … essentially we are sitting on thousands of tons of radio active material… nice!

[@JustforFun-cb7bo]

How to make enriched uranium? Give it money 🤑

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

🙄 Ooooh...Good one !

[@bender7017]

These are CANDU reactor fuel bundles . There is absolutely no enrichment of the uranium in the process of building these fuel bundles in the thumbnail.

[@coronalight77]

This bundling method is used in multiple types of reactors.

[@LFTRnow]

The round ones are, and you are right. CANDU bundles are typically made from natural uranium. However, there were also the square bundles. Those are enriched, typically about 4-5% US235

[@floycewhite6991]

Two German scientists discovered spontaneous fission. The world raced to build atomic piles, to enrich uranium, for building bombs.

[@adapaTRS]

Now I understand why Mr BOND and his team are so concerned about stolen nuclear weapons

[@charlesoconnor7142]

We're all on a list now 😅

[@ΣτέφανοςΚόκκαλης-τ1ν]

10 years to Cool downtown... It's a very good fuel for planet Mars when too much dust is there.

[@TheSilmarillian]

Nice indeed opal miner here down under silicon dust is a given .

[@jdsguam]

Probably used an AI Generator for much of this video; but, it is still very informative. I know I learned something.

[@NinjaZForce]

In another words a nuclear power plant is just a fancy steam engine. All that energy and humans boil water with it.

[@waltv3984]

Uranium rods… hummn, they look so delicious 🤤

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

"No, Homer ! You're not supposed to eat the uranium rods ! " "D'oh ! "

[@EDUCAMPUSA]

I take it this is common knowledge now.