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What are plutoniums uses?
Plutonium can be released as waste from nuclear power plants and can be sold on the black market to make other nuclear devices.
Can nuclear power plants make nuclear weapons?
It can produce low grade plutonium that need be extracted from the used nuclear fuel through used fuel reprocessing. However, power reactors are subject to the international nuclear safeguards to prevent its misuse.
Is nuclear burned?
Nuclear energy as obtained in nuclear reactor power plants comes from the fission or splitting of the nuclei of uranium and plutonium. It is not a chemical burning process and does not need any other elements to make it happen.
Do people make nuclear bombs at nuclear power plants?
Generally, no. But nations capable of making nuclear power plants may be able to extend the technology to make weapons.
What was the greatest threat posed by nuclear power plants?
It's a matter of opinion perhaps, but I would say the possibility of rogue states using them to obtain fissile plutonium to make bombs.
In the movie Back to The Futurewhere did Doc Brown get the plutonium to power the time-traveling Delorean?
Doc brown stole the plutonium from the nuclear power plant. *edit* The above answer is INCORRECT. The plutonium was stolen from Libyan terrorists who gave it to him to make a bomb.
Is nuclear fuel used to make electricity?
This is the purpose of nuclear power plants and is very successfully done, 104 reactors in the US for example.
How do you make a atomic bomb on Doodle God?
plutonium + weapon
What are nuclear power plants ran on?
Uranium in either oxide or metallic form, depending on type of reactor. Plutonium and other transuranics also would be suitable fuel, but no full scale power reactors have been designed to make use of them.
Do most nuclear power plants use atoms to make nuclear energy?
Nuclear power plants use the heat from the radioactive decay of Uranium or other radioactive atoms to boil water and make steam to run electrical generators.
How do the three types of power plants make electricity?
Nuclear, coal-fired, and hydroelectric power plants provide electricity.
What element is used to make electricity and nuclear bombs?
plutonium
