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Both uranium and plutonium are actinides that are used as nuclear fuel.
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Can plutonium be used for more than two things?
Yes, plutonium can be used for more than two things. Applications of plutonium include:explosive in nuclear weaponsnuclear fuel in nuclear power reactorsthe isotope 238Pu is used as fuel in radioisotope thermoelectric generators used in spacecraft or other applicationsneutron generator, as Pu-Be source
What are two examples of a nuclear fuel?
Uranium and plutonium
What is a common use of uranium?
Two uses of uranium are very important:- nuclear fuel for nuclear reactors- explosive for nuclear weapons
What is reaction about nuclear fuel that can take a man in just two weeks?
You presumably mean the radiation from an exposed piece of nuclear fuel (used, not new), which will be so intense that it will kill a person with only a short exposure, though the radiation sickness will take a week or so to cause death.
What is country used nuclear?
The United States used nuclear bombs on Japan in world war two.
Which two actinides occur naturally?
Uranium and Plutonium are the only elements from the Actinides series that occur naturally on Earth, though they are rare.
What are properties of f block elements?
they are of two types lanthanides and actinides
What two elements are shown at the bottom of the periodic table?
Lanthanides and Actinides.
What are the properties of 'f ' block elements?
they are of two types lanthanides and actinides
I know that fission and fusion are the two types of nuclear power. Which of the two creates nuclear waste.?
Nuclear fussion is not a technology we can yet apply to the generation of power. The heat required to initiate fusion is tremendous, and the reactors are all experimental. The fission reactors currently in use to generate the heat to create steam to drive turbine generators create a lot of nuclear waste. This waste is sealed inside the fuel elements, which have been designed and constructed to hold it there. When the fuel is spent, the fuel bundles are removed and sent to storage. Note that not all the fuel within the fuel bundle is used, but the amount and concentration of extremely dangerous nuclear waste trapped within the fuel elements is far to high to make recovery of the unspent fuel cost effective. Also, the storage of the spent fuel is a "hot button" topic, and that's because the stuff inside stays radioactive (to a very high level) for tens of thousands of years. Production of electricity
Were nuclear bombs were used in Iraq?
No, the only nuclear weapons ever used in combat were the two used in 1945 on Japan to end WW2.
What is the part of a nuclear power plant that undergoes a fission reaction?
The uranium 235 atoms in the nuclear fuel are what actually fission, or split into two other atoms. The uranium is in ceramic fuel pellets that are inserted into fuel rods, that make up fuel elements, that are in the reactor core that is located in the reactor vessel of the nuclear power plant. After the fuel has been in the reactor it begins to produce plutonium 239 atoms within the fuel which will also undergo a fission reaction.
