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Nuclear fuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines . Heat is created when nuclear fuel undergoes nuclear fission .
Most nuclear fuels contain heavy fissile actinide elements that are capable of undergoing and sustaining nuclear fission . The three most relevant fissile isotopes are uranium-233 , uranium-235 and plutonium-239 . When the unstable nuclei of these atoms are hit by a slow-moving neutron, they frequently split, creating two daughter nuclei and two or three more neutrons . In that case, the neutrons released go on to split more nuclei. This creates a self-sustaining chain reaction that is controlled in a nucle
The processes involved in mining, refining, purifying, using, and disposing of nuclear fuel are collectively known as the nuclear fuel cycle .
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