Realistic Uranium

by shmidtk

Adds close to reality uranium processing

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3 years ago
0.18 - 1.1
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Owner:
shmidtk
Source:
https://github.com/shmidtk/realistic-uranium
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License:
MIT
Created:
4 years ago
Latest Version:
0.0.4 (3 years ago)
Factorio version:
0.18 - 1.1
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557 users

This mod adds complexity to uranium processing. All steps based more or less on real processing procedures:

  1. Ore milling
  2. Mixing with water and sulfuric acid
  3. Extraction of ore from the host rock
  4. Chemical conversion of uranium oxides
  5. Production of liquid Uranium Hexafluoride
  6. Many steps of centrifuging or diffusion extraction of uranium
  7. Inverse transformation of uranium hexafluoride into oxides
  8. Production of nuclear fuel from oxides
  9. Metalisation of depleted uranium oxides
  10. PUREX process for plutonium extraction
  11. Nuclear waste

Real nuclear processing uses lots of chemicals, so I decided to depend on Krastorio this release so I can use their chemistry, metals, and buildings.

I slightly changed the balance in Krasotrio in terms of the energy density of nuclear cells and other nuclear products.

I am looking for help in graphics from buildings and icons.

While development I used lots of publicly available materials about nuclear processing:

Mining:
https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/resources/uranium/mining.html
https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/uranium-ore-processing-methods
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph241/weil2/

Uranium ore concentration:
https://www.nap.edu/read/13266/chapter/7#111
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1064/report.pdf
https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/how-extract-uranium-seawater-nuclear-power

Processing overview:
https://cna.ca/technology/energy/uranium-processing/

Cameco videos about processing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFFTQ-bCPI&list=PLFBAF3B641E878434&index=9

Chemical steps to UF6 oxidization:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4808390.pdf
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/conversion-enrichment-and-fabrication/conversion-and-deconversion.aspx
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573316301905

Extraction of pure uranium from uranium oxide:
http://elib.biblioatom.ru/text/atomnaya-energiya_t10-2_1961/go,38/
http://profbeckman.narod.ru/Uran.files/Glava13.pdf

Spent nuclear fuel processing and PUREX process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_nuclear_fuel
http://www.igcar.gov.in/rpg/articles/Ramanujam%20-%20Intro%20to%20reporcessing.pdf

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