The Fifth Fuel

Duration: 22 min

Year Published: 1967

Creator: U S Atomic Energy Commission Oak Ridge Operations Office

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Describes how uranium has become a useful source of energy. Explains the steps involved in preparing enriched uranium, from the mining operation through the exacting chemical and metallurgical processes, to the extrusion of precisely structured fuel elements. Points out how fuel cores transmute uranium-238 into plutonium at production reactor sites.