Uranium is a metallic element that was discovered by Martin Heinrich Klaproth German chemist in 1789 the significance of this discovery wasn't understood for a century and a half in 1938 scientists figured out that uranium atoms could be split to produce energy the size of a fireplace log this nuclear fuel bundle generates a lot more heat it's packed with enough uranium to power 100 homes for a year to obtain the uranium they tunnel 16 hundred and 40 feet underground at this site in
Saskatchewan, Canada, is the world's largest high-grade uranium deposit.
northern Saskatchewan this mine is the largest source of high-grade uranium in the world the uranium ore lies beneath a bed of water saturated sandstone to reach it they use drill bits studded with tungsten carbide buttons light knuckles on a fist the button bits punch into the rock face these first holes are for pipes that will pull heat out of the ground and freeze it around the or the miner operates the equipment by remote control it transfers a new piece of pipe to the end of the drill roughly every five feet to penetrate 426 feet into the sandstone bed it takes up to eight days to install just one length of pipe and there are 200 of them workers configure the pipe so they surround the ore deposit these freeze pipes will stabilise the ground and they'll also turn high-pressure groundwater to ice so it won't interfere with the actual mining a freeze plant above ground chills calcium chloride brine to minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit and sends it through the freeze pipes the brine absorbs heat as it freezes the ground and loops back to be chilled again above the uranium deposits workers now gear up to mind the or they'll use this bit to chew into the ore body in order to make an initial small diameter hole known as a pilot hole the pilot hole maps out the drill route to or and it creates an entry point for larger mining equipment from a raised position the bit bores vertically into the rock to drill the pilot hole and reach a specific level below the ore body they're now ready for the reamer bit the reamer has numerous button and crusted wield tentacles as this drill pulls the reamer up the pilot hole widening it and the broken or falls into what's known as an extraction chamber here at Ram operated by remote control scoops up the rock this remote control system keeps miners a safe distance away from falling rock hazards it also minimizes their exposure to the radioactive uranium in the ore as another precaution workers continuously ventilate the mine introducing fresh air every 20 minutes steered by the operators joystick the tram delivers the ore to a scanner by measuring the amount of radioactivity in the ore the scanner determines the uranium content is about 15% in much of the ore that uranium content is even greater on average around 18% and that's considered to be very high grade the train now empties the ore into a chute cameras follow the rocks journey to the next station then from a control room
Underground train track
an operator manipulates a hydraulic hammer to smash the ore to bits the broken or then migrates to a mill that grinds it into fine sand they add water and it becomes slurry which they then pumped to the surface trucks then transport the uranium or slurry to a mill nearly 50 miles away they pull into a special offloading facility the support for a vacuum system aligns with the tote that encases the slurry tank once in position a vacuum pipe drops into the tank and suctions up the slurry cameras provide a live feed of the unloading progress to a control room almost 23 feet away after
transformation of uranium into nuclear fuel
a wash and radiation check the truck leaves stay tuned for the transformation of uranium into nuclear fuel
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