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Chapter 1 Locations Large deposits of in the U.S are found in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Most of Canada's Uranium comes from the province of Saskatchewan. There is a lot of Uranium in the oceans but we do not have the technology to mine it at a cheap cost. Chapter 2 Mining When uranium is extracte ....

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.... melt at 1132 degrees Celsius, and boils at about 3818 degrees Celsius. Its atomic weight is 238.029 and its atomic number is 92. Chapter 4 Uses Uranium several uses, it is used in nuclear weapons and in nuclear power plants. They used uranium in 1954 for the first nuclear powered submarine in the U.S. Chapter 5 History Uranium was discovered in 1789 in pitchblende by a German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth who named it after the planet Uranus. The radioactive properties of uranium were first showed i ....