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Uranium (as uranium dioxide, uranium carbide, uranium metal, uranium alloys, etc.), plutonium and thorium.

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What do nuclear power stations use for fuel?

Uranium fuel.


What it would best be happened to gold if it were used as nuclear fuel?

Gold is a very stable element and would be no use as nuclear fuel


What do nuclear power stations use as fuel?

Predominantly enriched uranium, but some reactors can use natural uranium.


What type of power stations do not use chemical energy?

Fossil-fuel power stations, hydroelectric power stations and nuclear power stations.


A radioactive element othen used in nuclear powerstations?

Well, they mostly use uranium in power stations to make electricity. PS: What the hell is othen??


What naturally occurring radioistope is used as the fuel for a nuclear reactor?

Uranium is usually the element of choice for nuclear fuel. We also like to recover the uranium-235 isotope for fuel if we can. Some reactors use mostly U-235 for fuel, and some use a bit of U-235 in with U-238 for fuel.


What is the metal that nuclear power stations use?

Uranium


What is the element mined to be the fuel in nuclear reactors?

We mine uranium for use as a nuclear fuel. The uranium is separated from ore, and may undergo enrichment to separate out the lighter U-235 nuclide from the heavier U-238 one.


Research how wide spread the use of nuclear power stations is world wide Include which major countries use nuclear power and approximately what percentage of their power stations are nuclear?

See www.world-nuclear.org and do your own research


How is hydrogen important in astronomy?

For a start, it's the most common element in the Universe. Also, it's the element that most stars use as nuclear fuel, for their enormous power output.


What is a radioactive element often used in nuclear power stations means?

Uranium. Most current power reactors use Uranium enriched to 3% Uranium-235.


Use of computers in nuclear stations?

Yes, they are widely used for data gathering and display to the operators, also for reactor simulators, and assessment of the physics state of the reactor and its fuel cycling requirements.