Workshops in the Netherlands
The theme of the workshop is inspired by the process URENCO uses in enriching uranium for the production of electricity. Besides teaching children about these subjects, our aim is to awaken their interest in technical studies. This fits a national government-led project in the Netherlands. Using interactive experiments, the workshops look at the process of ‘sorting’, including sieving, separation, indicating, chromatography and spinning.
At each stage of the workshop, the children have the opportunity for hands-on development. The relevance of these processes to URENCO is that we use centrifugal spinning to separate uranium, which is the fuel for Nuclear Power stations. This is referred to during the workshop, though the emphasis is on a broader look at the topics of sorting and power generation.
The workshops have been a great success at schools around Almelo in the Netherlands.