Ashlee VanceNYT Best Seller | Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek

Manufacturing of Nuclear Energy #nuclear #science #tech #energy

6 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Ashlee Vance. This content was uploaded by Ashlee Vance. This is a YouTube video titled "Manufacturing of Nuclear Energy #nuclear #science #tech #energy" (created 2025-11-06). The excerpt is an explanatory segment by a presenter (labeled SPEAKER A) describing a manufacturing process for nuclear fuel: forming gel spheres, densifying them in a furnace to achieve the desired chemical composition, upgrading and coating them, and observing coated particles rotating and glowing red-hot during the process. It reads like a technical demonstration/narration rather than a multi-person dialogue.

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So we start out with the liquid. We make a gel sphere. We put it in a furnace to densify and convert them to the chemical composition that we want. We upgrade them, and then we bring them to this process where we coat them. Okay. Okay. And then you can get up there, and when you look, you'll start to see the particles rotating around. That's crazy. So what's happening? They're all just moving around? They're all flowing around, and it's important that they flow around so they're evenly coated. And the glow I'm seeing is just heat. The glow you're seeing is it's glowing red hot. It's like looking at the sun.