By: David Shald, Lance Matosky, and Matthew Hurst

 The CO2 Laser is to enrich the uranium.  The enriched uranium is used to fill fuel rods. Then the rods are put into the reactor.  They will be in there for 3 operational cycles. That is about 6 years.

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 Store used material in Yucca Mountain Or out the Window!

 In the U.S: 104  In Colorado: 0  Most of nuclear power plants are in the East Coast. But there are a few in southern California and southern Arizona.

 One Kilogram of U-235 can produce 3 Million times the energy of a kilogram of coal  This one reactor could power all of Boulder County  Lafayette uses roughly 7 million KW/H  A reactor can produce many MW/H (a thousand times a KW/H)  One Uranium pellet, (size of a fingertip) can produce the equivalent energy of 150 gallons of oil

 Nuclear energy produces a 400 th of the greenhouse gases in a coal plant

 Little Pollution  Miniscule CO2 Emissions  1,000 years worth of Uranium-Only 50 years of coal  Only byproduct is water vapor. The only thing used is water (and uranium)  Reliable  Needs little Uranium; produces LOTS of energy  Safe  10,000-50,000 people die from coal mining/lung problems and 0 Americans have died from Uranium mining

 Radiation  If all power came from nuclear power plants, Americans would only receive 2/10 of a millirem of radiation on top of the 200 millirems they receive annually  Nuclear Waste  Our only flaw! But Yucca Mountain can help us!  Stays active for thousands of years  Meltdowns!!!

 Most Meltdowns don’t kill people  Homer Simpson has survived many

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