The fissile and fertile material, principally uranium, mined and processed to fuel nuclear fission reactors. Belongs here: the raw material resource. Does not belong here: the reactor technology and generation process itself, grouped under Nuclear Fission.
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Nuclear fuel contains fissile material, such as uranium, which undergoes nuclear fission in a reactor.
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