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Nuclear fuel

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  1. 1
    A radioactive material, such as uranium, used to power a nuclear reactor.

    "For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage."

  2. 2
    fuel (such as uranium) that can be used in nuclear reactors as a source of electricity wordnet

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