铀为银白色金属,是重要的天然放射性元素,也是最重要的核燃料,铀元素和铀矿是十分敏感且人们又非常感兴趣的矿藏。第二次世界大战期间,铀的放射性首先被用于制造核武器,美国于1945年最先制造出世界上第一颗原子弹。此后,前苏联、英国、法国等纷纷探寻铀矿资源。1954年,国家地质部和苏联专家采集到了中国第一块铀矿石,中国核工业从此起步。作为制作核武器和建设核工业不可或缺的原料的铀,在中国的现状如何呢?《地球》记者在2016中国国际矿业大会举行的“创 Uranium is a silver-white metal, an important natural radioactive element and also the most important nuclear fuel. Uranium and uranium are very sensitive minerals that are of great interest to people. During the Second World War, the radioactivity of uranium was first used to make nuclear weapons. The United States first created the world’s first atomic bomb in 1945. Since then, the former Soviet Union, Britain, France and other exploration uranium resources. In 1954, the Ministry of Geology and the Soviet Union collected the first uranium ore in China and the nuclear industry in China started. What is the status quo in China for uranium, the indispensable raw material for the production of nuclear weapons and for the construction of the nuclear industry? What is the status quo for ”Earth" journalists at the 2016 China International Mining Congress?