Enriched Fuel Uranium which has been modified by increasing the concentration of the fissionable isotope, Uranium-235. Enriched fuel is more able to sustain a chain reaction and is normally used as the fuel for a nuclear power plant. The splitting or breaking apart of a heavy atom into two or more new atoms. When a heavy atom, such as uranium, is split, large amounts of energy and one or more neutrons are released. The atoms formed when uranium is split in a nuclear reactor.
Fission products are usually radioactive.
Fossil Fuels Coal, oil or natural gas. These fuels are referred to as fossil fuels since they are the remains of plants and animals that lived on earth hundreds of millions of years ago. The sequence of steps involved in supplying, using and disposing of the fuel used in nuclear reactors. The processing of used reactor fuel to chemically separate the fuel into waste products, plutonium, and reusable uranium. An instrument for detecting and measuring beta and gamma radiation.