Ranger Uranium Mine

Eventually, he found the Curies and they began working together. Marie Curie though, took Bequerel’s work further, conducting her own experiments on uranium rays and radioactivity. In 1897, the Curies had a daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie. Despite having to care for a child, Curie’s continued her studies. About a year later, Marie Curie made her biggest breakthrough yet. According to the Curies’ notes…

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” James Robert Oppenheimer uttered these words after the testing at Los Alamos, he is one of the many credited with creating the atomic bomb (“J. Robert Oppenheimer “Now I am become death…”). The scientist was quoting a Hindu script about gods and war (“Bhagavad-Gita”). His creation and scientists of the Manhattan Project would usher the world new era of warfare, because it allowed humans to become gods, and create the most important and impactful…

Atomic Bomb Atomic bombs are by far the most potent and dangerous weapons in all of history. They have the potential to destroy the world through various factors like nuclear fallout and human extinction. This was made evident through the complete annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after America dropped the first two atomic bombs. The cities became uninhabitable and the citizens became plagued with mutations. This occurred in 1945, and now atomic bombs have become more advanced and…

Nuclear energy creates a lot more power than natural gas or coal does. A single pound of reactor-grade uranium oxide produces as much electricity as over 16,000 pounds of coal; enough to meet the needs of the average American home for more than a year (Davis, “Prospects for Nuclear Power”). Therefore nuclear energy is extremely efficient when compared to other…

Is Thorium a good alternative? Thorium is a slightly radioactive metal that is made in rocks and soils, it is a significant replacement for uranium in the nuclear energy sector. As we continue to remain uncertain of our future supply of uranium, thorium is being seriously considered as an alternative to uranium to provide us with nuclear power at not only a reasonable cost but is also abundantly safe. For example, India has been looking at thorium for years, according to the US Geological…

Radioactive. Dangerous. Massive. The process of splitting the atoms of uranium is just that. Uranium is used in nuclear bombs and in nuclear energy. We know that nuclear bombs are the most deadly weapon on the face of the earth, but there is a positive way to use the uranium. We use uranium in our nuclear energy reactors to provide a clean energy for our power grids. “America’s 99 nuclear power plants generate almost 20 percent of the nation’s electricity while emitting no carbon dioxide or…

controversial power source, though seemingly efficient, is still considered a non renewable resource, meaning the energy is “derived from sources that exist in limited quantities.” Nuclear energy is nonrenewable because nuclear fission and fusion rely on uranium, “an element that exists in limited amounts.” There are many pros and cons to nuclear energy, which is why it is highly disputed as to whether it is an efficient resource. One negative attribute, is its instability. Over the years,…

Nuclear power plants contain fuel rods crafted from uranium. After the small quantity of uranium is used for the reactor, the fuel rods fulfilled its purpose and cannot be used anymore. Consequently, they have to be disposed of. However, that’s the problem. Fuel rods only are deprived of small amounts of uranium and still are highly radioactive//toxicity at this point. Their radioactivity/toxicity will subside in a very lengthy amount…

authentic, as well as the threat of nuclear accidents and environmental disruption. Nuclear energy, otherwise known as nuclear fusion, is the process used in nuclear reactors to provide energy using a highly radioactive element called uranium. The energy produced in a uranium atom is approximately ten million times greater than a burning fossil fuel atom. In the process of nuclear fusion, highly radioactive waste is produced and must be cooled for a certain time. Currently, there are 450 nuclear…

Uranium is a very heavy metal, which can be used as an abundant source of concentrated energy. The problem is that why do we think nuclear power is good? And why not use wood or coal or something other that nuclear power. Science has identified this issue when they monitored how much resources we use and we have to understand how we won’t run out of resources. This issue affects us because one day we will run out of resources such as coal gas or oil and it will lead to a difficult like which…