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Question by U T A: Why do we use uranium only for generating electricity from nuclear fusion or fission?
why not any other element like thorium or any other.
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Answer by Raheel Q
probably because it is the most commen radioactive element in the earth
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Nuclear power plant uses the fuel, uranium-235 or plutonium-239.
RBMK (high-power channel reactor, reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalniy), is a Soviet design developed from plutonium production reactors.
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Nuclear_power_reactor
because Uranium is a radio active element .uranium’s decay constant is higher than thorium or any other
By releasing particles (alpha ,beta ,gamma)it becomes un stable
which is very easy to break the nucleus to generate electricity
It is not enough for an element to be radioactive; it also needs to undergo nuclear fission (look it up). So 238U won’t do; hence the importance of enriching uranium to increase the proportion of 235U.
There was actually a reactor design that used thorium but it didn’t work very well..