With CO2-heavy non-renewable energy sources becoming a political taboo, could nuclear be considered a greener alternative? What could that mean for the price of uranium? — What is Uranium? Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element in the periodic table, with atomic number 92. It is assigned the chemical symbol U. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium has the highest atomic weight (19 kg m) of all naturally occurring…