What element is used in nuclear fission to produce energy?

Answer 1

The most likely nuclear fusion reaction to be successful in power production is between deuterium and tritium, which are both isotopes of hydrogen. The element formed in this fusion reaction is helium. So the only two elements involved are hydrogen and helium.

Answer 2

Uranium is the main one because uranium 235 is fissile. Plutonium 239 is also fissile and is made when uranium 238 is irradiated, so it is being made during a reactor's operation, and does contribute to some percentage of the reactor power output, especially towards the end of fuel life when the U 235 is getting depleted

Answer 3

Uranium, Plutonium and Thorium...the most common being uranium which when dug out of the ground is 99.3% uranium238 and only 0.7% uranium235. U235 is the nuclei best suited to nuclear fission which means natural uranium is enriched to raise the percentage of U235 to about 3-5% (enriched uranium)...this creates a lot of waste U238 which could be made into plutonium but is usually just stored. If the final use of the uranium is a bomb rather than energy, the enrichment percentage increases far more.

Answer 4

The sun does not use nuclear fission, it uses fusion.

Through fusion, the sun creates mostly helium, however it does create every element up to iron (heavier elements are created during super novas).

Answer 5

In theory, any radioactive element can suffice. But the only expedient types of nuclear fuel are based on Uranium-238 and Plutonium-239, and can be either metallic (uranium+thorium compounds, very rarely used), or oxidic (like UO2), or carbidic (PuC), or nitridic (sorry, forgot the formulae).

Answer 6

Do you mean elements like Uranium, Plutonium,etc, or something else? I'm not aware of 5 particular elements, but if you could explain the question I may be able to help

Answer 7

Uranium

Answer 8

uranium