This is a handful of these uranium oxide fuel pellets.

Nuclear right now means water cooled reactor, uranium oxide solid fuel, poor fuel efficiency and steam turbine.

Thorium is a naturally occurring nuclear fuel that is four times more common in the earth's crust than uranium.

Fuel, Skripach, fuel...

Well, all of those are what we call transuranics (sic) They're heavier than uranium and that's an indication that nuclear fuel was damaged and that nuclear fuel was volatilized at Fukushima

It's less than one percent of uranium, it's about 0.7 percent uranium.

And the other thing is, if you look at the photos there's an awful lot of rubble coming back down Now, that's fuel racks, fuel rods and pieces of uranium and plutonium

Hardly at all. That's why it is still around. Uranium, two isotopes uranium 235, uranium 238 both of course are radioactive.

Uranium hexafluoride is a gas.

Uranium tetrafluoride is in solution.

He is not protecting himself from the uranium, he's protecting the uranium from himself.

The reactors we have today use uranium oxide as a fuel. It's a ceramic material, chemically stable, but not very good at transferring heat.

We make this solid uranium oxide fuel and there's a single pellet, and then we put them in these big reactor fuel elements, zirconium tubes that are like 12 feet long and about this big around.

Mine fuel

And then we get to uranium.

They took natural uranium, and they separated those two isotopes, highly enriched it in uranium 235.

We only burn up a small amount of the uranium that's in there, we take it out and we stick it in a spent fuel pool.

So when you talk to people about waste disposal, they say, What's the concern? Well, most of the stuff that's in the fuel is just uranium.

It's going to stay in solution. But the uranium will come out as uranium hexafluoride, a gas.

And uranium 233 is being consumed but the neutrons from the fission are making new uranium 233.

I need fuel.

No fuel injection?

It became uranium 233. Isn't that cool?

But even China's realized, We can't built reactors based around water cooling and uranium oxide fuel, it's not going last that long. China's doing LFTR, even as we speak.

And the problem with a traditional nuclear power plant like this is, you've got these rods that are clad in zirconium, and inside them are uranium dioxide fuel pellets.

Large uranium reserves for nuclear fission still exist.

Of fire fuel fed,

It's 130 octane fuel.

No fuel is burnt.

We don't burn fuel.

We don't burn fuel.

He's a fuel merchant.

Uranium is used in the production of nuclear power.

Here's the decay chain that uranium 232 is on.

like uranium, plutonium, and everything else when they decay.

So, uranium, which is very big, wants to split.

the fire abounding in fuel,

Fire supplied (abundantly) with fuel,

The fire supplied with fuel.

with fire abounding in fuel,

Of the fuel fed fire,

The fire abounding in fuel,

the fire with its fuel,

Coal is a fossil fuel.

Gasoline is used for fuel.