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In a breeder reactor a. Plutonium is converted into uranium or b. Uranium is converted into plutonium?
Uranium. A breeder reactor can use either Uranium, Plutonium, or mixed Transuranic elements for fuel. Depleted Uranium or Thorium is used as the breeding blanket. Periodically the breeding blanket is changed: the old one reprocessed to make new fuel.
How many atoms of uranium does it take to make plutonium?
In the reaction238U + n-------239U-------239Np + e--------239Pu + eone atom of uranium become one atom of plutonium.
What element is converted to plutonium to make the first nuclear reactors?
Uranium
What is pluton made of?
A very small amount of plutonium is found in nature. The majority of it is produced artificially.The majority of plutonium is made in nuclear reactors:uranium-238 captures a neutron, becoming uranium-239uranium-239 undergoes beta decay, becoming neptunium-239 (halflife 23.5 minutes)neptunium-239 undergoes beta decay, becoming plutonium-239 (halflife 2.33 days)plutonium is then chemically separated from the remaining uranium, neptunium, etc.
Does the government use uranium?
Yes, the government uses uranium. Uranium is mined, refined and then enriched to provide nuclear fuel for nuclear reactors. Depleted uranium, the uranium "left over" from enrichment, is used in munitions to defeat armor, and in some types of armor. On a related note, enriched uranium is in demand by some sovern states and religeous/political factions to make nuclear weapons, though the "modern" nuclear powers use plutonium as the fissionable element in their nuclear devices. The plutonium is made by "soaking" uranium in the neutron flux of an operating nuclear reactor for a time. This changes (transmutes) some of the uranium to plutonium, which is then recovered and processed.
What happens when plutonium fuses with uranium to make a bomb?
Nothing special. Atomic bombs can be built with either uranium, plutonium, or composite (plutonium/uranium) cores. All work the same.
What elements were used to make plutonium?
The isotope uranium-238 is the source of plutonium.
In a breeder reactor a. Plutonium is converted into uranium or b. Uranium is converted into plutonium?
Uranium. A breeder reactor can use either Uranium, Plutonium, or mixed Transuranic elements for fuel. Depleted Uranium or Thorium is used as the breeding blanket. Periodically the breeding blanket is changed: the old one reprocessed to make new fuel.
How many atoms of uranium does it take to make plutonium?
In the reaction238U + n-------239U-------239Np + e--------239Pu + eone atom of uranium become one atom of plutonium.
What element was first used to make atomic bond?
Uranium and plutonium.
What element is converted to plutonium to make the first nuclear reactors?
Uranium
What was used to make the first atomic bomb?
Both Uranium & Plutonium were used.
Why was plutonium used in Fat Man?
There are two materials that can be used to make an atomic bomb: Plutonium-239 and uranium-235. Of the two plutonium-239 is easier to acquire. By the end of the Manhattan Project the U.S. only had enough uranium-235 to make one bomb, and that was Little Boy.
What mineral is used to make atomic energy?
Plutonium made from uranium refinement in a centrifuge
How can you make a bigger explosion with a nuke?
All you do is make the plutonium or uranium more unstable and you have a bigger boom
What element was used to make the atom bomb?
Plutonium-239 for Nagasaki's Fat Man Uranium-235 for Hiroshima's Little Boyhydrogen
What element is a reactor fuel?
Uranium-235 or Plutonium-239, or Uranium-233. Also many transuranics, like Americium make good fuel.
