Thoughts about uranium cars
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:35 pm
Been idling thinking about these as part of the whole cargo revamp thing, with a view to how they should ultimately be skinned up. There's two ways of looking at them.
First way is that since they cart uranium (presumably ore) straight from the mine, they should really just be standard shipping containers. That's how yellow cake is shipped in practice. They just load it into 44 gallon drums and stash all the drums in a standard container.
Second way is that since they apparently cart uranium fuel direct to the reactors they should be skinned as fuel rod carriers, or perhaps as waste carriers. This would probably be more distinctive during play, which is not a bad thing.
Another idle thought. Bauxite goes to aluminum mills. Aluminium comes out. Iron ore goes to steel mills. Steel comes out. Really, the industry chain for uranium should include a uranium refinery as an intermediate step. Not sure why this wasn't done.
First way is that since they cart uranium (presumably ore) straight from the mine, they should really just be standard shipping containers. That's how yellow cake is shipped in practice. They just load it into 44 gallon drums and stash all the drums in a standard container.
Second way is that since they apparently cart uranium fuel direct to the reactors they should be skinned as fuel rod carriers, or perhaps as waste carriers. This would probably be more distinctive during play, which is not a bad thing.
Another idle thought. Bauxite goes to aluminum mills. Aluminium comes out. Iron ore goes to steel mills. Steel comes out. Really, the industry chain for uranium should include a uranium refinery as an intermediate step. Not sure why this wasn't done.