Argonne explains nuclear recycling in 4 minutes [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.48 Nuclear engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Argonne, Ill. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Argonne National Laboratory ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2012
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 0:04:02 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 256772
• Chủ đề: 1. 25 energy storage; 2. 29 energy planning, policy, and economy; 3. 30 direct energy conversion; 4. 32 energy conservation, consumption, and utilization; 5. 46 instrumentation related to nuclear science and technology; 6. Argonne national lab; 7. Chicago; 8. Et al; 9. Illinois; 10. Nuclear power; 11. Nuclear recycle

Tóm tắt

 Currently, when using nuclear energy only about five percent of the uranium used in a fuel rod gets fissioned for energy
  after that, the rods are taken out of the reactor and put into permanent storage. There is a way, however, to use almost all of the uranium in a fuel rod. Recycling used nuclear fuel could produce hundreds of years of energy from just the uranium we've already mined, all of it carbon-free. Problems with older technology put a halt to recycling used nuclear fuel in the United States, but new techniques developed by scientists at Argonne National Laboratory address many of those issues. For more information, visit http://www.anl.gov/energy/nuclear-energy.