From Rocks to Juice: An Overview of Nuclear Power
| Date | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
Benn Tannenbaum of the American Association for the Advancement of Science discusses civilian nuclear power. This session aims to address some of the following questions. How is uranium refined and how can it be enriched to weapons grade? What are the nature and utilities of gaseous diffusion, centrifuges and laser enrichment? How do nuclear power reactors work in respect to spent fuel management, reprocessing and the manufacture of plutonium?