At the beginning of the nuclear age:

Uranium-like substance known to people in very ancient times. But unlike in our time, they only use it to create a special glaze for pottery and some kind of paint. It is used in this natural uranium oxide, which can be found in varying amounts on almost all continents of the deposit world. 

After a long time, this element is of interest in chemistry. Thus, in 1789 the German scholar Martin Klaproth was able to obtain uranium oxide, which was similar to the metal of its parameters, but it was not the cause. It was only in 1840 that the French chemist Peligot synthesized uranium - now a heavy, silver and radioactive metal, which Dmitry Mendeleev made in his elemental sequence of elements. So what uranium should you enrich, and how does it happen? 

In the reality of our time, natural uranium ore is not very different from the rest. These massive paving stones are rusty, which is extracted in the most conventional way in mines - the deposit is transported to the slab layers and subsequent processing surface. The fact that this natural substance contains only 0.72% isotope U235. This was not enough to use the furnace or weapons, and then after the kind, he had to be converted to gas and begins to enrich uranium. 

In general, of these process methods, there are many, but the most promising and widely used in Russia is a gas centrifuge. 

In special installations, the gas is pumped into the uranium compound which is then screwed on at large speeds, and there is a section of heavier molecules in the lung and groups them into the drum wall. 

Then, these lubricants are separated and one of them is converted into uranium dioxide - dense and solid, which is then weighed down by a kind of "tablets" and fired in a kiln. That's what you need to enrich uranium, in the order U235 isotope release percentage higher than that in scale, and can be used in furnaces or armaments systems. 

Export:

If the export result is a simple example, the enrichment of this element is somewhat similar to the production of naturally occurring iron - ore pieces converted into various processing solid steel in the original, natural form, nothing impeccable. 

And how can one wonder how the press often finds so much undeveloped and often enriched uranium, comparable to other parts of the same Russian country? 

In fact the gas core exclusion of this process is very difficult to give an example, and cannot if all these units are to be built. In particular, we are a separate entity but do not need a whole layer of them. In order to realize their technical level, it is worth saying "drums" rotate at a speed of 1500 revolutions per minute and without stopping. Registration - 30 years! Because some countries buy enriched uranium in Russia. 

Where is the uranium mine in Russia?

93% of the uranium ore produced in the Trans-Baikal region. And Russia produces enriched uranium "TVEL".

Sorted out with change mechanisms in relation to a higher performance, but why is it needed? Let us think of two important areas. 

First, there is of course nuclear reactors. They provide the whole city with electricity, support autonomous spacecraft to study in the most corners of our solar system, where there are submarines, icebreakers, research ships. 

Second, it is weapons of mass destruction. The truth is clear - uranium bombs have long been used instead of weapons-grade plutonium. He produced a special exposure for low-enriched uranium furnaces.  

Myths are also interesting facts: 

For the most part, the Soviet view was that over the years it would refer to uranium mines as dangerous criminals or "enemies of the people" that would rarely be compensated for its convictions. Of course, for a long time they did not stay there because of radiation.

This is not really the case. There is a particular risk of not working at this product, natural radioactive ore is found to be depleted and people will die sooner from the lack of sunlight and fresh air than radiation sickness. 

However, it has been working for generations, refuting the myth that it is 5 hours, which is economical for the working conditions of the workers, and the terrible destruction of many such products. 

And because of the bare uranium, the nuclei make weapons and bombs. Uranium is said to be the heaviest and strongest lead in efficiently bringing these wonderful elements, and yet has a tendency to catch fire as a result of destruction, with a mechanical impact on them.