How Uranium Becomes Nuclear Fuel
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- Nuclear technology is constantly in the news. So how exactly do you make nuclear fuel?
Special thanks to Life Noggin for animating this video! Check them out: / lifenoggin
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Fuel Cycle Facilities
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“The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates uranium recovery facilities that mill uranium; fuel cycle facilities that convert, enrich, and fabricate it into fuel for use in nuclear reactors, and deconversion facilities that process the depleted uranium hexafluoride for disposal.”
Uranium processing
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“Uranium (U), although very dense (19.1 grams per cubic centimetre), is a relatively weak, nonrefractory metal. Indeed, the metallic properties of uranium appear to be intermediate between those of silver and other true metals and those of the nonmetallic elements, so that it is not valued for structural applications.”
About Nuclear Fuel Cycle
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“Nuclear Fuel Cycle can be defined as the set of processes to make use of nuclear materials and to return it to normal state. It starts with the mining of unused nuclear materials from the nature and ends with the safe disposal of used nuclear material in the nature.”
Nuclear Fuel Processes
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“Nuclear power plants do not burn any fuel. Instead, they use uranium fuel, consisting of solid ceramic pellets, to produce electricity through a process called fission.”
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I could count the times I've been to Chernobyl on one hand.
yep 7 times.
Adrian Ashby copy paste 🤔
Hhahhaha
Me too, high 7.
Huh, I've been about 30 times
@@lintonfr wow both hands
Chernobyl turned me into a scientist lol
Me too
Me too, I had no interesting in nuclear knowledge. but now ? I'm reading and watching ...
Yeah me too. This thing is in my head can't get it out
SAME
This set of comments is terrifying...
Please stop listening those ameteurs. Ask me your questions comrades.
So. You really didn't see the graphite?
@@wisnuyogapraditya6108 you are having a shock. Someone take him to infirmary.
Everytime I ask, you were in Toilet
@@Overneed-Belkan-Witch you are delusional
How bad is it with 3.6 roentgen? Great or terrible?
Thanks for letting us do animations for the video!
Life Noggin, hi I am a huge fan.
You're welcome
The humble brag!
Amazing channel life noggin
Perhaps - In so doing,... you are also participating in the PRO-NUCLEAR propaganda machine,... not taking into consideration the real dangers of these purified man-made products & the disposal issues of them,... including all of the dangerous chemical waste needed to produce them.
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I've always hated anything math related like Chemistry and Physics, but after watching Chernobyl I've been getting all these nuclear and chernobyl related recommendation videos and I'm eager to learn all about it
Machi Giceb the same goes with me. I just graduated with a bachelors degree and I’m in denial already because this subject of nuclear energy is so interesting. I was never good at math in high school which turned me off to s.t.e.m degrees. I wonder what level of math it takes to become a nuclear expert or engineer who gets to party in this realm.
@@Coolcat2119 it requires a lot, but math can be learned. Learn the concepts and apply them in physics for example and you will learn the beauty in math and you will be much better at it. I always failed math in primary school and secondary school. But I managed to finish calculus and linear algebra in college afterward. It took me some time to master It, but I did.
@@v44n7 Thank you! Your story is inspiring!
Same here! After watching the mini series On HBO, I can’t get enough about learning about nuclear reactors and uranium-235……..lol
You'd probably love Richard Feynman's lecture titled "Los Alamos From Below". It's available on UA-cam and it's actually pretty funny, Feynman was a character; very mischievous, picking people's locks and always challenging authority; challenging peoples assumptions and sometimes even embarrassing the sh*t out of NASA when he exposed what they were trying to cover up.
watched Chernobyl first, almost done watching anything related to nuclear energy on youtube now....
Is this Your bike? Same here! 👍🏻👌🏻
Check out bionerd, she does work around Chernobyl
Everyone’s gangsta until the fuel rods start jumping
SITNIKOV please tell me, how an RBMK reactor core explodes.
That's impossible!!!
I've been told it's the equivalent of a chest xray.
@@wino0000006 oh, so it's not actually that bad
@Googly Pops
You are confused. RBMK reactors don't explode.
It didn't happen, it was just a roof fire
Trace is my favourite DNews host. Of all the hosts, he's the one who always sounds like he actually understands what he's talking about (even if he really doesn't) as opposed to just reading off a teleprompter.
I think DNews is a pretty cool guy. eh talks sienze and doesn't afraid of anything.
Damian Reloaded That sentence gave me brain cancer.
Damian Reloaded Unfortunately I am not into self harm, so I will not drill a hole in my skull. Nor do I care about zombies, let them come at me.
We all write our episodes too! So I try my best understand. ;)
Ame Nightcore and all the references went through and past you as if you were made of thin air... ^_^
Chernobyl Tv Series brought me here.
Me too comrade.
Yes.
Me too !
youtube recommendations brought me here
lol same
Jesus, I've been watching nuclear related videos, now I'm afraid the FBI is gonna show up at my door
You and me both
U can buy it.onlone
Loved the use of graphics to explain the process... hoping to see more of those in future videos as well... Great content once again... Thanks
I had yellow cake uranium with vanilla frosting for my birthday.
qqq1701 I had $2ØØ worth of cheese for my birthday
***** Can I hab a da canzur pls baws?
ReviewMemeNSA 0x00 ey b0ss I habe cansur.
Hello fellow review tech USA viewer and troll lol
You'll be glowing FOREVER.... o_o
Oh man this video is a CLASSIC. Sometimes you dig into complicated and advanced science and realize… it's really just spinning stuff over and over and over again. So nuts!
Thank You for your expertise and breakdown of the many processes involved .
It's still one of the cleanest and one of the most efficient and reliable sources of power. It also has the highest proportion of power generated to power needed to process fuel. The main problem is that due to the uproar against nuclear energy all of the reactors are at least 30 years old... that's not good, since the technology advanced so much that if you were to build a nuclear reactor now it would be almost 10 times as safe as the existing ones.
MaxFist Yet people refuse to allow new nuclear plants to be built. I hate people.
MaxFist can I ask you a question, why is their smoke coming out of nuclear plants
carlos almaraz That's steam, not smoke. Those are cooling towers, there are no combustion chambers in nuclear plants.
OHHHHHHH
I don't think the main problem is negative public opinion, more crippeling problem is money: Goverments don't have funds to make safer plants and companies won't spend money to improve thing unless they get more money from that.
It should be made so, that a goverment agency would force power companies to update their plants, but as long as companies influence regulations, it's never going to happen.
Best thing of all would be upgrading oldest plants into thorium reactors.
Was Watching Cheronobyl
and i am here.
We dont care
@@buco5613 :I do you pompous ass. Chernobyl was an AWESOME miniseries! Let the man speak his mind!
"A nuclear reactor makes electricity by-"
"Good. Now I know how a nuclear reactor works."
Loved the new graphics to explain the process!
Good job on the spinning graphics! I enjoyed that
Trace is the best.....keep it up man.You make it interesting to watch your videos.......
i hope you make a lot of good one ,just like the ones you make....Good luck
@2:20 when you mention "U3O8" you make it sound like another isotope of uranium (eg uranium-238), rather than the compound triuranium octoxide (U3 O8). However, if you somehow have managed to make a new isotope whose nucleus is stable with an extra 70 neutrons, then I congratulate you for this remarkable achievement!
Thank you.
You presented that incredibly well thanks from NZ
Loving the new animations you guys have going.
theres graphite on the roof.
it's too radioactive, robots won't work...
You didn’t see it so it isn’t there. Change my mind
He's in shock. Take him to the infirmary.
LOL
3.6 rontgen not great not terrible
Please can you make a video about Thorium reactors?
Hopefully, Thorium molten salt reactors will get the attention of Bill Gates, Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos and one of them can get it going. Our government seems to be dragging its feet on this issue. Even China is ahead of us on getting a working Thorium reactor.
LFTRs!!! ;)
i.e. bullshit reactors.
+CSmith.Develop Yes! It uses U-233, but Thorium is the natural fertile fuel to start with. Thorium is turning to U-233 after breeding! For the start up U-235 is needed to make neutrons; or a neutron ray could be used directly!
@@april5054 just because you don't understand it doesn't make it bullshit.
Can you do a video on Thorium LFTR reactors?
I know you covered a bit on them in another video but this technology needs its own.
The world needs it more than anything else!
Great article and nice animations in the middle explaining the purification of uranium atoms :)
The most efficient source of energy.
I’ve always loved the physics behind this and have always understood how the process works, which makes me aware of Nuclear power and not afraid of it. Nuclear Power is the only power generation where the waste is contained. Coal, Gas is pumped into the atmosphere, Solar and wind go to land fill at the end of life. Yes Nuclear power plants are required to be built and extremely maintained.
Tell that to the people at Chernobyl, three mile island and Fukushima.
@@liquidbraino of course i’m a complete fucked stupid fucken idiot uranium is the reason why people cut corners on building things and doing things in the cheap. You are an absolute salami
This vid actually explains the chemistry behind it all. I thank you for that ! very intereresting .
Thanks for the info and great job adding the cartoons for us visual learners.
The briefing and the host, both are really great! I think there is always positive ways to use up things, so the advancement in nuclear power stuff should be done for development and the better/efficient standard of power generation. Although using it the wrong way i.e. nuclear weapons is surely destructive, thus a bad idea.
Can you please do a video about interstellar travel and how we could get to other solar systems?
That is exactly what I wanted to know. It's been bothering me. Thanks and well explained.
Dude love the in tell and the pace didn't bore me like some do and wasn't trying to confuse like some do. first time watching but now im a fan.
Its almost inconcievable how people figured all this out. How many errors, how many people died figuring this stuff out?
Exactly what im wondering.
Two people to put it simply, marie curie and her husband.
you didn't mention Heavy Water reactors like the CANDO developed in Canada. they don't require enriched uranium, use 30%- 40% less fuel and are more efficient. The reason why America uses the much more complicated and expensive and dangerous light water reactors is because when they were developed after the second world war they needed the enrichment facilities to create the fuel needed for nuclear weapons.
+Dirks 2.0 Yea it's fucking stupid, we can't use modern reactors.
+Dirks 2.0 I'm Canadian, and no CANDU are not safe at all, I would say probably one of the worst, I mean they are all dangerous, but for what I know CANDU is a horizontal design, meaning the full is place horizontally not vertically, which has a major flaw if the level of water plunge; the gravity will force the full spend to curve and even touch one another making the whole containment unstable. So for that I see high risk. Also the principle of using heavy water facilate the production of plutonium 239, finally 1% of tritium simply goes directly in the atmosphere. Early version of the reactor "Chalk River" was used for production of plutonium during the American nuclear program in late 40's
+blackypain How does the fuel channels touching spell environmental disaster though? There is always the vacuum building to stop releases. That is just something that needs avoiding, with backup generators and the lack of tsunamis coming off of Lake Ontario. The reaction would be sub-critical with a lack of moderator. The amount of tritium that escapes is also trace, minuscule compared to radon emissions of gas. The plutonium would also have too much Pu240 in it to make a useful bomb from the fuel burnup standards of today, and then there are international regulators.
I don't Understand light water reactor?? please explain it to me.
@@babulkumar6254 Light water is made with hydrogen that has no neutrons and heavy water is water made with deuterium which is hydrogen that has 1 neutron. Deuterium is heavier hence, heavy water. The water is then used as a coolant and a moderator. Coolant - obviously to cool the reactor. Moderator - helps slow down the neutrons born from fission to a suitable kinetic energy for the fuel source to absorb a neutron, fission, and generate more neutrons to keep the reaction going.
That uranium enrichment sounds damn expensive
The animations look really good. I'd like to see more cuts with info shots
Could you do a video on the two different types of Nuclear Fusion? The one the Russians use which I believe uses magnets to try to control the plasma and the European one, which uses lasers. Although they don't really work yet, it would be cool to see how they should work in practice.
If you read this in 2019, we are already building the fusion reactor in France, go Mankind :-D
Clear explanation. I loved watching it. So watched it thrice over. Thank you
I liked the way the information was presented in this video.
Actually, uranium is more like 3 million times as energy dense as fuel than coal. I love nuclear power.
i love radiation too.
@@bored588 As do I. It makes me warm. If it weren't for the nuclear reactor in the sky, I would freeze to death. Because the DNA in cancer cells is unstable and degraded, cancer cells are killed by ionizing radiation before other cells. Not to mention that reactor in the sky produces ultraviolet rays which cause the body to produce vitamin d and serotonin. But, some nonsense about the idea that low level ionizing radiation cannot provide health benefits.
@@bored588 yeah, I love visible radiation too, it hits the rods and cones in our eyes so we could see the reflected electromagnetic waves from objects.
Do A video on depleted uranium
He just did
Really nice work ! 1 I really appreciate this. Well done and very understandable Thank you
What a clear an fun explanation.. Thank you!
Interesting.
Is it really all that more efficient when you take into account the energy spent refining it? Genuine question.
***** It isn't stable energy though. The extra cost of energy storage makes them more expensive at the moment, although they are an essential part of the energy mix. Nuclear can produce more energy but it can't change to demand well so it is best for providing base energy consumption.
***** For £2 billion you could build a 1200 MW nuclear power plant, for the same price you could install about 1150 MW of wind turbines so the difference is not much, but this means it is important that we use both energy sources (in the UK). I would guess that factoring in energy storage for wind and decommissioning costs for nuclear both still cost similar prices, at least by the time we have adequate methods for storing all that wind energy.
Surely you must know that wind turbines aren't extremely constant in their output though. Even out at sea the wind doesn't blow forever. "Extremely constant" is an overstatement.
There are upsides and downsides to both technologies that I haven't included here but I will say that we can't rely on renewables yet, and we can't solely rely on nuclear either.
***** It'd be interesting if you could show us your sources? I'm rather doubtful at how you are saying wind turbines are almost just as good as nuclear power plants.
***** I can't exactly remember where I looked for the figures but I know it was a combination of looking at pricing figures from a manufacturer's website, some stuff on Wikipedia, and I'm pretty sure I just looked for the cost of the Heysham 2 construction. I don't think I included the cost overruns that often happen on new reactor design builds or the cost of the storage requirements needed for that much wind power either. It's just a rough estimate tbh.
My point is more that they are both viable energy sources but neither is a magic bullet.
i was thinking the same thing
AMAZING EXPLANATION !! THANKS !
Simple and clear explanation about Uranium extraction and related process !!
I love Nuclear Energy. The 4th-gen reactors are amazing, 90-95% energy used and passive safety i.e they can't crash. The Thorium reactors now being developed in China is also a promising piece of work. (I know there are better or more precise words, but I'm not native english so pardon me, I don't usually talk about nuclear power in english).
can you talk about thorium reactor's
ashley beaumont reactors* if you add an apostrophe, its a possessive, not plural
BulletToTheKnee you're the Hero nobody deserve or want, but you're the hero we need.
you are a...unitato.
*plural.
ashley beaumont im pretty sure they dont exist yet,
ashley beaumont watch?v=568iDYn8pjc
Excellent thanks a very well presented presentation on a complex subject
Great job explaining!
Thanks for differentiating enrichment for civilian nuclear reactors as opposed to nuclear weapons. Too many people just assume that the nuclear reactor fuel can simply be "put in an atomic bomb."
I am watching it after having IODINE pills...Safety first.
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This is great editing
Loving the animation!
Nuclear reactors are awesome and we need more of them
No we don't thay are scarie and can end the world poeple should not mess around with nuclear trust me!
@@giselarenner7007 hey, look another ignorant person that has no idea what they're talking about
what is the total energy footprint of creating usable nuclear fuel?
very small. its almost as clean as the pipe dream energies (eg solar, water, wind)
Depends on the type of fuel you want.
Usable Uranium is pretty energy intense.
Thorium is dirt cheap (literally (literally)).
A video on Uranium power plants vs Thorium ones would be awesome!!
The animations in this episode were great :)
dude looks like a poor mans' Tim Olyphant
Well, I don't know, but I've been told
Uranium ore's worth more than gold
Sold my Cad', I bought me a Jeep
I've got that bug and I can't sleep
I would be interested in learning about alternatives like thorium reactors, whats involved in the making of those?
Cool animations! Love'em.
The final energy output of 1 ton of Thorium ore in a LFTR equals about 235 tons of Uranium ore in a LWR.
Assuming equal 3% purity of the ore the waste from the LFTR will be about 2.1 kg while the waste from the LWR will be about 7 tons (6838 kg depleted uranium and 211.5 kg waste)...
The 2.1 kg waste from the LFTR needs to be stored for only 300 years.
The 211.5 kg waste from the LWR needs to be stored for 100.000 years.
The worlds Energy (2007)
Tonnes of Coal: 5 000 000 000 (five billion)
Barrels of Oil: 31 000 000 000 (thirtyone billion)
M^3 Natural gas: 5 000 000 000 000 m^3 (five trillion cubic meters)
Tonnes of Uranium: 65 000 (sixty five thousand)
ALL of this equals only 5000 tonnes of Thorium.
Google LFTRs
5000 tons of highly toxic waste every year doesnt sound good.
There is a third kind of nuclear reactor that is left out of this video. The thorium reactor, or the Molten Salt Reactor. It requires U-235 to get a reaction going but it doesn't require a fission to produce energy. It use thorium and the technology have been around since the 1950s but wasn't developed further because the fission reactor have a military application whereas thorium reactor doesn't.
Nice animations!! Looking good!
Great explanation! Thx!
0:22 that’s a coal power plant....
Nuclear and solar should be current focus Along with wind, tide, and geothermal energy.
Nuclear is the boogyman so dont expect that to happen
DNews I think nobody mentioned that: Awesome idea with the animations! Gonna check Life Noggin for sure!
thanks for this education.. much clearer than others I've watched
I was expecting to see green glowey stuff :-(
azadkamall84 Why wuld u think u wuld be in a DNews vidoe?
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Matt Hoffman Idk if u understand how dis meme works m8, tahts my job
blue glow from Cherenkov radiation electrons surpassing photons in water.
Usually it's fluorescent blue from the cherenkov radiation. Quite beautiful.
Nuclear reactors do now use Highly Rnriched Uranium.(HEU). Uranium is low enriched.
Coal burning plants actually release radiation into the environment.
Nuclear power is highly efficient and part of our waste storage problem is due to the fact that we don't process the rods when removed. Approximately 80% of the material in the rods could be used again, but that process is not allowed by law here in the states.
There are fatal flaws to every type of energy production.
I know the thought of radiation is a scary topic to mist people, bit we live, work and play in radioactive environments every day and every place we go. I am not challenging you to support or not support nuclear energy, but please take time to learn about it before rendering a judgement or basing your decisions on misinformation from people who want to scare you into a position.
Thank you for the manual to enrich U 235
Thank you for converting those archaic units into internationally-recognized uints with those subtitles.
I feel for Chernobyl
I think nuclear engery is the smartest energy
Nein!
We need potato powered unicorn bioreactors!
David Pallatin Thorium reactors anyone?
MegaBlueT They need an other look.
MegaBlueT If anything from nuclear, it has to be thorium and/or fusion.
love the animation. please do this more often for the visual learners
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Nice job
i would rather they invest in thorium reactors over uranium reactors for A: A LOT safer. and B: The Thorium reactors are aprox 200x more efficient than conventional uranium reactors, not to mention that thorium is way cheaper than uranium...
DOOM89 I'm hoping for either Thorium or the Takomaks reactor in France to end up working perfectly.
Its more conceptual than an actual solution.otherwise why dont you see thorium reactors poping up all over the world
DOOM89 thorium also cannot be turned into weapons grade plutonium either
TopShot501st Because thorium can't be used to make nuclear weapons with..sometimes things are that simple in this shitty world
TopShot501st yes but the concept from what i've researched is astounding, china is charging ahead in research of thorium reactors because of the potential the technology has, way back in the 50s when reactors were in their 1st iterations there was a functional thorium reactor, the reason it wasn't chosen over the uranium breeder design was simply because the government of the u.s. wanted something they could get weapons from, simple as that. but for energy generation thorium is by far the best choice because its safe, clean and inexpensive.
Hahaha, Kim Jong-Un is probably watching this in high hopes.
that spinning motion was kinda satisfying
Graphic is awesome!!
I think nuclear energy is feasible, and yes would definitely make a big impact on the cut down of fossil fuels! Even though I see that renewable energy is gaining grown, it still won't produce enough for the typical person, unless they live under a rock. Let's be real, everyone loves to have AC and everyone has to constantly use electricity for lights, computers, and washing clothes.
wow they flashed °F on the screen. **Europeans start convulsing at the sight**
Great video so easily explained
Great video!
my comment is just that... we all are digging our graves with our own hands :)
Rana Moon Digging everyone's grave with a few hands. And if u don't participate in this brave new world u are labelled as backward and uncivilized. So forward go into forever night.
Or just build a nice RBMK reactor and do away with all that spinning nonesense.
Communist fuel is always better... The more explisive veriety produces more power for less cost.
Very helpful stuff, Thanks mate, back to the lab 😊
Fascinating
Very interesting video.
Suggestions:
1) What happens to nuclear waste?
2) How are nuclear weapons manufactured (in detail like this one)?
3) What was Tesla's idea of wireless tansmission of electrical energy?
4) How powerful is Scandinavia? ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ
Sorry if some might already be done.
Don't wear Russian boxer shorts......Chernobyl fallout!!
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Waa good that, interesting and informative, thanks :)
wow thanks... well explained!!