How Enriched URANIUM is MADE☢️ | How URANIUM is EXTRACTED FROM MINES | From Mine to Reactor
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- Embark on a fascinating journey into the world of nuclear energy as we explore the process of extracting and processing uranium, one of the Earth's most powerful elements, to fuel nuclear reactors and generate electricity. Join us as we delve into the depths of the world's largest high-quality uranium deposit in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, and witness the intricate steps involved in transforming this element into nuclear fuel.
Discover how uranium, first discovered in 1789, plays a crucial role in nuclear energy production and how scientists harnessed its power to generate electricity over a century later. From the initial excavation process, where drills penetrate 500 meters underground, to the extraction of uranium ore from beneath layers of sandstone, we unveil the rigorous methods used to obtain this vital resource.
Follow the journey of uranium ore as it undergoes various processes, including crushing, grinding, and chemical treatment, to extract and purify the uranium. Learn how uranium dioxide pellets are formed, each capable of generating immense amounts of energy, and witness their journey from production to insertion into nuclear reactor cores. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
This seems to be some sort of stolen AI-generated/narrated/edited content?
Pretty genius way to make conent. Just reproduce an educational documentary with AI and profit. No copyright claims.
@@dontbestupid6664 Absolutely, and TH-cam 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.
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.😁
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
Correct
Being Iranian, I find the video very informative. Thank you
HAHAHAHHA Love it
Ha ha live long 😂
You are Persian.
@@AnandKumar-lu5lt you are ariyans invaders 😌 not native of our JAMBUDIEP
Hey pakistani here, I can arrange for u cheap quality from China.
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.
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.
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
@@bingosunnoon9341 I lived these facts. Went on to do greater things.
@@bingosunnoon9341 Its public domain, their reactor (Iraqi) was bombed by the Israelis.
@@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
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.
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...
Its uranium in rods of steel, and the contac with water make it somehow very agressiv reaction
@@pieterdeboer5361 So it is. I was watching some Nuclear weapon videos around then as well. I guess it crossed.
Thank you, I Learnt more in 10 mins on nuclear energy than I have in 10 years.👍🇦🇺
10 years underwater to disepate radiocative rods. Thats insane!
Galen Windsor took a dive and he has a different opinion : )
@@NikosPer The water shielded him.
@@UQRXD its all bollocks, people need the truth. this is a clown world
@@NikosPer Are you in Possession of the Truth ?
@@winstonchurchill8300no, he owns a circus
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.
smart
🤣🤣🤣 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.
@@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.
@@kiabtoomlauj6249 Or we could consult with the worlds greatest embarrassment Kamala who pretends to be a leader and would probably try to eat them.
@kiabtoomlauj6249 trump is another word for fart 👍
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I want Trump to run Britain too ..👍 our culture and country is being destroyed by insane psychopaths like Biden 😔
Being a Neanderthal, I find this video very informative.
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.
shut up, you have no friends
How did you lose your friends exactly?
Iranians watching this “WRITE THAT DOWN!” Fiercely scribbling 😂
They can just pay Trump.
😂😂😂😂
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.
Sure, kiddo. Sure.
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.
Uranium is wild
I hear you Ra*. I had a GF named Uranium. One day she just split
@ovalwingnut Your girl told my woman, Plutonium, about it and SHE did the same thing ! It was like a chain reaction or something...
@@JohnWilson-wg4gk LOL John! That left very little conFusion about what you meant. Yes, that was a stretch You RoCk
The cylindrical fuel bundles are for CANDU reactors which use natural uranium and don't require fuel enrichment.
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...
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!
@col8981 what do they do about human body perspiration or human bodies constant release of moisture
My brain just exploded LOL
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?
75% of the USA uranium is from RUSSIA...This is just story for idiots.. USA cant power a dildo without Russian uranium..
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.
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.
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.
4:55 says "radioactive material" plus some identification letters; 5:37 says "presspowder".
This is the definition of "everything's on TH-cam"
Major issue - you keep showing CANDU reactors and fuel bundles which don’t use enriched fuel.
Well, that was EZ. Thank you Mr.Robot. Thumbs up
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..
It's my understanding Canadian reactors don't need enriched uranium.
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..
@@paulwilliamson2370 Makes sense. Thanks!
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.
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.
0:25 - that’s plutonium, not uranium.
@K_rangan007 I’ve seen both in the flesh in my career.
10 years to Cool downtown...
It's a very good fuel for planet Mars when too much dust is there.
Nice indeed opal miner here down under silicon dust is a given .
@7:47mins - That is an Optical illusion. That Rings at the End of those Bundles looks Flat but they're Horizontally attached
I'm glad we ignored hydro power.. nuclear is so much more profitable for a few.
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.
@halonothing1 sarcasm is beyond your higher intellect, apparently.
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
@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.
@@JWnFlorida Wait. I just noticed. I meant to type CAN'T instead of can.
I'll edit; my bad
Good.
Now I know how a nuclear reactor works.
God Mercury is the reason for the radio active elements
I burned a lot of fuel rods up traveling underwater across the globe.
Thank You for this Video 📸
It is very Educational 😊
But inaccurate
Not very accurate
@@bingosunnoon9341is there a better video on TH-cam you recommend?
How do the rods which initially emit very low levels of radiation get activated to generate the heat?
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.
Simple
@@Chicago_Clout Yes, I wonder why I didn't think of that!😁
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
Iran taking notes
Imagine having a nuclear car. When you have to chancg a cartridge once every 10 years. Just add water and run a steam engine.
Just imagine car get accident then!
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.
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.
@aurorajones8481 being overly concerned for safety prevents technological advancement. That's why 3rd world countries growing,but all we can think of is safety.
@@vahagnmelikyan2906ifhy
Excellent 👍
00:05:35 - on that inverted funnel there are writings in russian. is this really Canada, ey?
How to make enriched uranium? Give it money 🤑
🙄 Ooooh...Good one !
The only suggestion is this why don’t you make synthetic lab uranium?
Doing too much drilling and just a lot of work.
Nice work 😊😊😊
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…
U238 is depleted uranium U235 is the good stuff
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.
I am wondering how they are handling enriched U-235 with bare hands.
@@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.
Awesome !! Canada u rock
the Human Brain is absolutely amazing
The Ayatollah be taken notes
MOSSAD be monitoring every comments here
I just love physics...so intriguing
5:37 there is something written in Russian. Why is that?
WOW....................Thank you
Why aren't the fuel rods re-enriched and used again?
They are being re-enriched
Now I understand why Mr BOND and his team are so concerned about stolen nuclear weapons
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.
This bundling method is used in multiple types of reactors.
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
If the US have this..then every country have the right to possess one
great info, thanks team
So we store them in water … essentially we are sitting on thousands of tons of radio active material… nice!
We're all on a list now 😅
"This video showcases a fascinating production process. What career paths are available in this field?"
Career Of Cancer @ 40 CPM What They Won't SAY
Are you being serious? The carrer paths are obvious as this is a very specific field.
Oncology...
The uranium processing facility is probably in Russia. The mine was in Canada
It's radioactive if I'm correct yet they are touching them
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: th-cam.com/video/iTb_KRG6LXo/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Fermilab
Dosage matters.
intensity matters.
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
Cool..❤❤
Is Saskatchewan really in Canada?
And nothing ever ever goes wrong, and the world lived happily ever after. The end.
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??
There are heat exchangers to keep the water in the pool cool.
Shouldn't Nuclear power plants be effectively UP to date.
Dangerously Good
Is this a legal drill location?
“3.6 Roentgen, not great, not terrible"
Holy KRAP ! Who figured out this crazy shit ? Gotta be super expensive process
Albert Einstein was the first to figure it (theoretically)
I skimmed this, but didn't hear mention that this particular configuration is unique to Canadian Candu reactors. (These are operated in several countries).
Can you freeze the pool which in turn wouldn't freeze but really cool things down.
The tempreture can not be drastically changed. freezing would be drastically changing the temperature too quickly.
How you gonna gonna tell us the series of chemical reactions used to purify the uranium after the acid bath?
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
Some Workers on this Video are Not even Wearing Full Protective Gear
Probably used an AI Generator for much of this video; but, it is still very informative. I know I learned something.
Now all we need the Fatman plans!
How smart are some people 😮
This video should not be posted. It is risky. Because if it goes to the wrong hand, any terrorist group may try to misuse the knowledge to make nuclear bombs. Kindly delete it for saving the mankind. It is very much informative.
Would be funny as f.. k if the cheapest wrench would withstand the most pressure! 😂😂
Now I’m on watch list
Great video.
Make coal fired power plants great again
This video is stolen from a Canadian video made from Cameco. AI-generated slop has been dubbed over it. 😂
I take it this is common knowledge now.
Wadda I do with this glowing green stuff?Aacckk,just went through my hand. Spare bone marrow in fridge. 😂
Uranium rods… hummn, they look so delicious 🤤
"No, Homer !
You're not supposed to eat the uranium rods ! "
"D'oh ! "
Its interestyng this video I like
Did the ai at the beginning say “produces enough yeet”?
That looks easy.
Shouldn't they be wearing masks?
Snorting is not allowed
8347 manufacturing steps later it seems that solar+battery is the way to go.
Kazakstan have bige and best uranium
Australia.
Were does the radioactive air from the mine go...polluting the environment ?
Uranium is not active in its natural state only after it has been processed .
its water vapor. you must be thinking of coal plants
0:20 - "Earth's most dangerous metal" - like, whisky tango foxtrot? Never mind, hearing this I know it's not worth wathing any minute longer.
It would appear that it hardly damages the environment at all during its production😅😅
" it takes 8 days to replace one piece of pipe and it takes 200 of them " that's over 4 years. 8 days to replace (?!) a 1.5 meter pipe ?? That is unbelievably stupid.
You are unbelievably stupid to think that there isn’t multiple crews working on different rods at the same time….. also if the payoff from one of those little tiny cylinders is equal to 1400lbs of coal or 1000lbs of oil I think it’s worth it.
They didn’t explain that process very well. The drill rods are 1.5 m. The length of hole is about 100 m then cased and a brine return pipe installed. Not stupid.
Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!
We need nuclear batteries
Ask china.
Google the definition of battery first.
@@basedbarman th-cam.com/video/RXteD7ZgSKA/w-d-xo.html
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.
Oh steam powered battery ,your a genius
You mean a battery that emitts alpha and beta particles in all directions and is always hot enough to burn anything it touches.
Im wondering, uranium slurry is traveling 80 k.m distance in open environment.
What’s your concern? Interception by criminals?
آخر الفيديو ماذا يحدث بعد ذللك من المخلفات .مخلفات الطاقة النووية منذ ٥٠ سنة ماذا حل بها
Could you update your Korean subtitles with more specific scientific steps and processes?
And the Persian subtitles too for my friend
You mean for the Ayatollahs in Iran?
What if the uranium pellets are used as a bullet in machine guns.... Very dangerous
Like in your steam pressure do you understand how to reach gravity temperature are you still using Einstein's equations
clean energy my ass!