Grade Level: 5-12
DID YOU KNOW?
1 Uranium fuel pellet, without being reprocessed and recycled, has about as much energy available in today’s Light Water Reactor (LWR) as:
- 3 barrels of oil (42 gallons each)
- 1 ton of coal
- 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas
Learn more by reading the infographic, Source Energy Equivalents.