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> Can other elements, except uranium, be used for power generation

Plutonium, Thorium and a few others yes

> I thought uranium is used in reactors because it also produces A-bomb material as a by-product.

It doesn't and it's used mostly because it was easiest to work with and best researched when the majority oft reactors Werke build

parent dtx1 4 years ago

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