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Nuclear Energy: Uranium Fission
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Thousands of years ago human beings learned to make fire. By collecting
and burning wood they were able to warm themselves, cook food, and manufacture
primitive tools. Later, the Egyptians discovered the principal of the sail.
Even more recent was the invention of the water wheel. All of these activities
utilize various forms of ener .... Middle of paper
.... water contains 4.6x10^9
tons of uranium. All the world's electricity usage, 650GWe could therefore be
supplied by the uranium in sea water for 7 million years(Energy 25). This is a
only a theoretical number because it is not possible to get all of the uranium
out of our vast oceans. Also, it does not include the fact that in that many
years, half of the uranium will no longer exist due to radioactive decay. So,
at worst, we would get about 2 ....
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Number of words: 1142
Number of pages: 5 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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