Uranium (Civ6)

Uranium
Strategic resource
Introduced in Civilization VI
Revealed by	Combined Arms
Resource value	+2
Frequency	Land: 5 ( 10) (uncommon ( very common))
Primary Improvement
Improvement	Mine
Available with	Mining
Mine value	+1 Production +1 Production (Req. Apprenticeship) +1 Production (Req. Industrialization) +3 Uranium per turn
Required for
Units	Modern Armor  Nuclear Submarine
Units	Giant Death Robot
Other	Nuclear Device  Thermonuclear Device
Found on
Terrain	Woods  Rainforest  Desert  Desert (Hills)  Plains  Plains (Hills)  Grassland  Grassland (Hills)  Tundra  Tundra (Hills)  Snow  Snow (Hills)

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Uranium is an Atomic Era Strategic Resource in Civilization VI. It is revealed with Combined Arms.

Uranium can appear on any type of land tile except Floodplains, Oases, and Marshes.

• +2 Production

Strategy

Uranium is the last Strategic Resource in the game. It has three uses: enabling some of the most powerful units in the game (the Modern Armor and the Nuclear Submarine in vanilla Civilization VI and Rise and Fall, and the Giant Death Robot in Gathering Storm), allowing the construction of nukes (great for the warmonger), and being used as fuel for the Nuclear Power Plant. It is the most powerful Strategic Resource, but also the rarest.

Interestingly, like its cousin Oil, Uranium has a considerable bias towards spawning on Tundra and Snow tiles. This can be a handy source of Production for cities attempting to build the Amundsen-Scott Research Station, or a fiery castigation for the enemies of Russia or Canada.

Civilopedia entry

With 92 protons and electrons, six of the latter valence electrons, uranium is a silver-white metal that is slightly radioactive. The use of uranium dates back to at least 79 AD, when it was used to add a yellowish color to ceramic glazes. But Enrico Fermi found a more malevolent use for the metal; his research in 1934 led to the discovery of “nuclear fission.” And in December 1942, another team led by Fermi as part of the Manhattan Project initiated the world’s first self-sustained nuclear reaction. A few years later, thanks to uranium, the skies above Hiroshima lit up.

See also

• Uranium in other games