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Plutonium is an alternative; thorium as fertile material.

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Q: What is the alternative to uranium for nuclear power?
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Is uranium good for climate change?

Uranium is used as nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors. Nuclear power plants don't contribute to global warming, greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide releasing. Uranium is now the most important alternative to fossil fuels.


How efficient is uranium?

Uranium is very efficient as nuclear fuel or nuclear weapon. Uranium is an alternative to fossil fuels.


Is uranium known as expectation metal?

The word expectation is not adequate; uranium is used as fuel in nuclear power reactors. Nuclear energy is the most important alternative for fossil fuels.


What is an alternative material to plutonium for nuclear power?

Uranium-235, uranium-233; in the future, if it is possible, on a small scale: neptunium, americium, curium.


What alternative fuel does nuclear energy come from?

Uranium


Does nuclear power have uranium in it?

Either Uranium or Plutonium.


Why is uranium used in nuclear power plants?

Uranium is used as nuclear fuel in nuclear power plants because the fission of uranium atom release a formidable quantity of energy.


An alternative to oil resources but it is requires careful disposal of the radioactive waste which is produced?

Plutionium, Uranium and/or Americum can all be used to fuel a nuclear fission power station


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


Examples of where the energy from uranium?

Uranium is used as nuclear fuel in nuclear power reactors.


Is nuclear power same as uranium?

Uranium (as metal, dioxide, carbide, etc.) is the nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors; plutonium is obtained also from uranium 238 and thorium 232 generate uranium 233.


How is uranium involved in nuclear reactors?

Uranium is now the most important nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants.