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Uranium had three advantages over other nuclear fuel, and several disadvantage. The potential other fuel was thorium. A comparison of the two systems includes:
- Uranium reactors are simpler than thorium reactors
- The byproducts of the uranium reaction (plutonium) can be used to make nuclear weapons.
- Uranium is rare and rapidly becomes a limited resource while thorium is common and virtually unlimited. The US had access to uranium through its own reserves and Canada.
- Thorium reactors "fail safe" if there is a problem, the nuclear reaction stops and the reactor becomes cold and inert. Uranium creates ongoing problems when they have an uncontrolled failure
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What is an advantage of using uranium as an energy source?
- no air pollution - no greenhouse effects - no fossil fuel - the most important alternative source of energy - it is the energy of the future
What are the arguments for uranium mining?
Uranium is a very useful metal and specially is an alternative source of energy to fossil fuels.Uranium must be exploited.
Is uranium of renewable?
Uranium is not a renewable source of energy.
What kind of energy use uranium?
Nuclear energy sometime uses uranium for its energy source.
What is Uranium energy used for?
Uranium is used as nuclear fuel in nuclear reactors.
What are advantages of using uranium energy source?
1. Uranium is an alternative to fossil fuels, especially for countries without reserves of coal, petrol, methane. 2. Uranium don't contribute to global warming. 3. Uranium don't release carbon dioxide.
What does uranium produce energy from?
This source is the fission energy.
What Power plant that uses uranium as a source of energy?
Uranium (or plutonium) is a source of energy (nuclear fuel) in nuclear power plants.
How does uranium help power up communities?
Uranium is a source of energy - converted to electric or thermal energy.
What is uranium's energy source called?
nothing
What is the term used to describe renewable ecologically safe source of energy?
1.source energy. 2.alternative energy.
Name the alternative sources of energy that Caribbean countries can use?
The main alternative source of energy that Caribbean countries is solar energy. Another alternative source of energy they could use is wind energy.
