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Comment by paintbox

For comparison allow me to add chatGPT 5.5:

"Choose U-235 if the goal is safe, boring, practical electricity generation. Choose Pu-241 only if the goal is specifically to consume/recycle plutonium in a reactor designed and licensed for that fuel.

In brutal shorthand: Pu-241 is a better “fissile isotope” in some nuclear-physics ways, but U-235 is a much better reactor fuel in the real world."

If only I knew anything about nuclear reactors. But it sounds to me that the answer is also correct.

parent paintbox 4 months ago

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