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Why does uranium ore have to be enriched before its used in a nuclear power plant?
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1. Uranium must be refined to obtain "nuclear grade" uranium.
2. The enrichment in the isotope 235U depends on the type of the nuclear reactor; some reactors (as CANDU) work with natural uranium.
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Which radioactive material element is used in nuclear reactor in fukushima japan plant?
The fuel rods are of uranium dioxide, with the uranium enriched to about 5% U-235
Where can you harness uranium?
In a nuclear fission reactor power plant
What are the fuel sources for a nuclear power plant?
Natural uranium
The energy in uranium is used to make electricity in a nuclear power plant. How is the energy stored in uranium?
in the nucleus
What is isotope of uranium is used in a nuclear plant?
Typically 3% uranium-235, 97% uranium-238.
What power plant uses uranium?
The majority of commercial nuclear power reactors use uranium (natural or enriched) as nuclear fuel.
What is the fuel in a nuclear power plant?
The new fuel is uranium dioxide, enriched to about 4 percent U-235
Which radioactive material element is used in nuclear reactor in fukushima japan plant?
The fuel rods are of uranium dioxide, with the uranium enriched to about 5% U-235
Fuel source for a nuclear power plant?
Normally Uranium enriched to about 4 percent U-235, in the form UO2
What fuel is used in the fukushima nuclear plant?
Fukushima Daiichi uses Uranium-235, at a slightly enriched ratio of about 5%.
What are the elements used to make the nuclear power plant?
Enriched uranium is the main fuel. Due to the extension of the article, a link below was created to access Wikipedia with full information about Nuclear Power Plant.
What is a uranium 235 that is use in nuclear power plant?
U-235 is the enriched form of U-238 which is used in fission reactors as the fuel rods.
Can a nuclear power plant burn uranium?
A nuclear power plant does use uranium as fuel It "burns" it in the nuclear sense not the chemical sense
What is the feul for nuclear power plants and where does it come from?
Either yellow uranium oxide (yellowcake) or metallic uranium in most reactors. In moderated thermal neutron reactors the uranium is usually enriched to 3% to 5% uranium-235 isotope, in unmoderated fast neutron reactors the uranium is enriched to 20% to 95% uranium-235 isotope. This uranium comes from mines (similar to coal or iron ore mines). What is mined is usually black uranium oxide ore. This ore is processed to make unenriched yellowcake (0.7% uranium-235) and shipped to the enrichment plant. Most enrichment plants process the yellowcake to make uranium hexafloride then run that through their system, producing both enriched uranium (product) and depleted uranium (waste). The enriched uranium hexafloride is then processed back to yellowcake and shipped to a finishing plant that uses it to make the required fuel assemblies.
Is splitting uranium in a power plant a physical nuclear or chemical change?
It is a nuclear change because there is a change in the nuclear structure of Uranium.
What is the uraniums use in nuclear power plant?
Uranium is used as nuclear fuel.
What equipment is used in a nuclear power plant?
Uranium
