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.

This One

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 400th 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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor_technology

http://www.google.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Nuclear_enrichment http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/

nuclear.htm http://members.tripod.com/

funk_phenomenon/nuclear/procon.htm