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Yes. Uranium is used as the "fuel" for the reactor. Some reactors also use Plutonium or a mixture of Plutonium and Uranium as fuel. Plutonium does not occur naturally in any great quantity on Earth but it is produced as a waste product by civil nuclear reactors and in quite large quantities by some reactor designs where the production of weapons grade Plutonium was one of their primary design objectives.

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