URANIUM

URANIUM:

• MINED IN CANADA.....THE NO.1 URANIUM PRODUCERS IN THE WORLD.....THERE NO.1 EXPORT PRODUCT
• MINERS  WHEN EXPOSE TO URANIUM GOT LUNG CANCER....URANIUM BY-PRODUCTS ARE THORIUM-230....RADIUM-226...RADO-222...AND RADON DAUGHTERS :LEAD 210 AND POLONIUM-210......WHILE MINING URANIUM...THE AREA WILL BE FILLED RADIOACTIVE RADON GAS THAT CAUSES LUNG CANCER TO MINERS.....
• STUDIES SAYS THAT URANIUM IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO ENERGY CRISIS
• USES OF URANIUM: ATOMIC BOMB AND NUCLEAR REACTORS
• ULTIMATE PRODUCTS OF URANIUM: BOMBS AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE PRODUCT...SO EITHER WAY IT IS NOT HEALTHY TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANS....
• IN NATURE, URANIUM IS FOUND AS URANIUM-238(99.284%).....URANIUM-235(0.711%)...AND THE THIRD IS URANIUM-234 (.0058%)
• RECORDED MINING OF URANIUM WAS IN THE 16TH CENTURY IN SANKT JOACHIMSTHAL, BRANDENBURG , GERMANY....DURING THAT TIME IT WAS A SILVER MINING TOWN...
• URANIUM IN THE ELEMENTS PERIODICT TABLE SYMBOL IS   U..... IT HAS 92 PROTONS AND 146 NEUTRONS....ATOMIC WEIGHT IS 238
• URANIUM IS A RADIOACTIVE SILVERY METAL CONSISTING OF 99% URANIUM 238 AND 1 %  URANIUM235.....THIS RARE FORM IS THE ONE NEEDED FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS.....TO SEPERATE URANIUM 235 INTO 2 FORMS, THE URANIUM MUST BE TURNED INTO URANIUM HEXAFLOURIDE A VOLATILE LIQUID...
• NUCLEAR PLANTS USES URANIUM-235 OF WHICH IS SEPERATED FROM URANIUM-238 BY GASEOUS DIFFUSION METHOD AND EXTREMELY POWERFUL CENTRIFUGE...BOTH TECHNIQUES ARE EXPENSIVE...
• USE OF URANIUM-235 AS FUEL IN NUCLEAR PLANTS IS MUCH CHEAPER AND IT HAS NO AIR POLLUTION.....1 KG. URANIUM USED COMPARED TO 17,000 KGS. OF COAL IN FOSSIL FUEL PLANT PRODUCES ALSO THE SAME AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCED.....
• URANIUM-235 OR URANIUM-238 ARE NOT ELEMENTS BUT NATURAL ISOTOPES OF AN ELEMENT URANIUM.....ALL THE ISOTOPSE  OF URANIUM (ARTIFICIAL OR NATURAL) ARE RADIOACTIVE.......
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