What is the most common fissionable isotope in a commercial nuclear power reactor?

Expert Solution

Uranium is the most common fissionable isotope.

Uranium is the most widely used fuel by nuclear power plants for nuclear fission. Nuclear power plants use a certain type of uranium as fuel because its atoms are easily split apart. Although uranium is about 100 times more common than silver, U-235 is relatively rare at just over 0.7% of natural uranium.

Uranium is the most common fissionable isotope.

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