Fuel Manufacturing

Listen to an engineer, Ray Siddall, describing how fuel pellets are manufactured at the Oxide Fuel Complex at Springfields in the UK.
Note: furnace = hot oven
dioxide = a compound with 2 atoms of oxygen in each molecule
granule = a small, hard particle e.g. sugar granule

Note down answers to the following questions:

i) What is special about the store for enriched uranium material? Check your answer
ii) What characteristic does the uranium powder have at this stage of the process? Check your answer
iii) How long do the pellets stay in the furnace? Check your answer

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