How is Uranium refined so it can be used in nuclear reactors?

[mathisrad]

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How does Uranium get refined?

I just looked a little bit into how Nuclear power plants work out of curiosity, and I saw that the Uranium they use is U-235, but when I was looking at a website, it said that the Uranium required 3% or higher content of U-235. I wasn't sure if this was correct so I dug a bit deeper at the Uranium refinement process, and was confused about how it worked. I would appreciate it if someone could explain the Uranium refinement process to me (preferably in steps if it's not too much trouble)

 

[berkeman]

Doing a Google search on Uranium Refinement gets auto-corrected to Uranium Enrichment and here is the first hit on that search list:

https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/resources/uranium/enrichment.html

Does that help?

 

[mathisrad]

Yes that helps a lot, the previous website I was looking at wasn't the easiest to understand. Thank you

 

[Astronuc]

An additional resource - https://world-nuclear.org/informati...l-cycle/conversion-enrichment-and-fabrication