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What Natural Uranium: Is It Possible?
For example, natural uranium consists of three isotopes: uranium-238, uranium-235, and uranium-234. All of these uranium isotopes are mildly radioactive but are still fairly stable. Uranium isotopes can be provoked into undergoing ssion
A barium nucleus, a krypton nucleus, three neutrons, and energy are produced. reactions. Scientists do this by ring a neutron at a uranium atom. is results in the formation of two smaller isotopes and the emission of three other neutrons, which in turn cause other uranium isotopes to

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