Four Hundred Metres Down: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 28, 2026 · 1h 4m

Klaproth, Becquerel, Hahn–Strassmann–Meitner–Frisch, Chicago Pile-1; in situ leaching, Cigar Lake, yellowcake and Navajo miners; UF6 conversion bottlenecks; calutrons, gaseous diffusion and Zippe centrifuges, SWU and tails; Rosatom, Urenco, Orano; the 2024 US ban on Russian LEU; pellets, cladding and burnup; Fukushima and chromium-coated cladding; HALEU, TRISO, Natrium and Xe-100, Centrus's 900 kg; decay heat, pools and dry casks; PUREX, La Hague, MOX, Superphénix, Monju, BN-800, the UK plutonium stockpile; pyroprocessing and transmutation; KBS-3 copper, bentonite and gneiss, Posiva's licence…