This mod adds complexity to uranium processing. All steps based more or less on real processing procedures:
- Ore milling
- Mixing with water and sulfuric acid
- Extraction of ore from the host rock
- Chemical conversion of uranium oxides
- Production of liquid Uranium Hexafluoride
- Many steps of centrifuging or diffusion extraction of uranium
- Inverse transformation of uranium hexafluoride into oxides
- Production of nuclear fuel from oxides
- Metalisation of depleted uranium oxides
- PUREX process for plutonium extraction
- 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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