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Uranium and electricity (1985)

Author	Eldorado Recources Ltd.
Date	August 1985
Classification	6.01.2.10/14 (TECHNICAL - GENERAL INFORMATION)
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Introduction

Of all the major fuels that mankind has ever used for heat, only one-uranium-
belongs to this century. It has been used for hundreds of years to add colour to 
glass and ceramics. Only within present lifetimes (1939) was it discovered that 
uranium also has the ability to release an incredible amount of energy in nuclear 
fission (the splitting of its atomic nucleus). Complete fission of uranium-235 can 
produce 2.5 million times more heat than the combustion of an equal weight of 
carbon in wood, coal, oil or natural gas.
Today this controlled fission produces heat which is used for the production of 
steam to generate electricity. Nuclear power is replacing the use of fossil fuels 
to produce electricity in many countries. Since no combustion is involved, nuclear 
fuel offers an environmentally clean and efficient method of power production in 
contrast with burning coal or oil to generate electricity. Furthermore, the world's 
supplies of petroleum are needed for many purposes other than generating electricity.

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