Uranium

What is Uranium?

How do we collect Uranium?

• Uranium is a Nonrenewable resource.
• Uranium is considered a common metal.
• Uranium is mined in every country of the world.
• Uranium is found in large rocks.

What is the history of Uranium?

How do we get energy from Uranium

• A neutron is used to split a Uranium atom.
• Control rods absorb neutrons. 
• steam generator keeps steam at a high pressure.
• Turbine turns coil which generates electricity.
• Then is sent to a switch yard.

Radiation

• Radiation is spent fuel that is radioactive.
• Radiation may last for 1,000,s of years
• Safest place to store radiation is repositories.
• Radiation is stored now in fuel pools or dry cask storage.
• (This process is called radioactive decay).

Disadvantages of Uranium.

• Lots of water is used to cool the machinery.
• Uranium produces High amounts of Radiation.
• This radiation needs to be stored so that it loses it radioactivity.

What is the advantage of Uranium?

• There is no air pollution or carbon dioxide.
• This is because it is not burned for energy.

Uranium Mining graph (countries)

By: Will and Kayce