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Mike Alkin: The Ultimate Uranium Crash Course

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Building a Supply Demand Model for Uranium

The nuclear fuel cycle can starts with mining uranium. And then it gets sent off to a converter that gets converted to UF6 uranium hexafluoride. This natural uranium contains 0.7% of the Q235 isotope. The remaining 99.3% is mostly the U238 isotope, which doesn't contribute to the fission process. So the enrichment process separates the isotopes via this process called enrichment.

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