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Only plutonium! Is that any better?
Actually all the transuranics can make suitable fuel for nuclear reactors, especially Americium. The Integral Fast Breeder(IFB) reactor was designed to reprocess Uranium and all the transuranics produced into fuel rods onsite, leaving only the short lived fission products as waste, which would only require storage for a couple centuries (not hundreds of thousands of years as current waste with the transuranics still in it does). Some of these fission products have industrial and/or medical uses and would be worth separating from the waste.
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What requires use of uranium and a reactor?
Uranium is primarily used as fuel in nuclear reactors, which generate electricity through the process of nuclear fission. In these reactors, uranium atoms are split to release a significant amount of energy, which is then used to heat water, produce steam, and drive turbines for power generation. Additionally, uranium is utilized in research reactors for various scientific experiments, medical isotope production, and training purposes.
Describe the difference between weapons grade and reactor grade nuclear fuel?
Uranium in nature is only about 0.7% 235U. In order to have a chain reaction, the percentage of 235U must be increased by enrichment. The percentages of 235U in nuclear reactors are generally low, about 3% to 5%. For bombs, the percentage is generally 85% or more.
Engineers increase the concentration of uranium-235 atoms in a nuclear fuel during what process?
Engineers increase the concentration of uranium-235 atoms in nuclear fuel during the process of enrichment. This involves separating uranium-235 from the more abundant uranium-238 isotope, typically through methods such as gas diffusion or gas centrifugation. The goal is to achieve a higher percentage of uranium-235, which is necessary for sustaining a nuclear chain reaction in reactors.
What is the bad things about the nuclear power reactors?
there are no bad things about the nuclear power reactors
Functions of nuclear reactors?
One of the primary functions of a nuclear reactor is to maintain a chain reaction. Also, nuclear reactors are meant to provide a steady flow of neutrons.
What can be used as a substitute for nuclear reactors?
No substitute for nuclear power reactors especially if there is no available fossil fuel.
Why will uranium run out?
Because uranium is "burned" in nuclear reactors.
Examples of where the energy from uranium?
Uranium is used as nuclear fuel in nuclear power reactors.
How much of the is powered by uranium?
The majority of nuclear reactors use uranium as nuclear fuel.
What is uranium used for in Somalia?
Somalia hasn't power nuclear reactors, research nuclear reactors, research institutes for nuclear energy, uranium mines and any plants or laboratories linked to uranium.
What are examples of using uranium as an energy source?
Uranium is a nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors.
What is Uranium used as fuel for?
Nuclear reactors.
How is uranium involved in nuclear reactors?
Uranium is now the most important nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants.
How is uranium used as a fossil fuel?
Uranium is not a fossil fuel; uranium is used as nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors.
If uranium is not a foosil fuel then what is it?
Uranium is a radioactive element used to fuel nuclear reactors. It is a nuclear fuel.
What type of energy requires a uranium and a reactor?
Nuclear energy, because uranium is a nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors.
What is the molar mass of uranium in nuclear reactors?
The atomic weight of uranium is 238,02891.
