Nuclear Fuel How-To

ATMosby writes "The BBC has an article that pretty much sums up everything you might need to know if you wanted to refine nuclear fuel and build some atomic weapons." From the article: "Uranium is the basic raw material of both civilian and military nuclear programmes. It is extracted from either open-cast pits or by underground mining. Although uranium occurs naturally all over the world, only a small fraction is found in concentrated ores. When certain atoms of uranium are split in a chain reaction, energy is released. This process is called nuclear fission."

Comments

Where does the fuel come from?

[Colin Smith]

Something that gets skipped over. At the moment, Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan are the largest producers.

I'm not sure being a fuel producer is necessarily a good thing given the USA's penchant for invading other countries. And Canada is so close after all.