Types of Nuclear Fuel

Nuclear fuel refers to one of any number of substances that can be used to generate nuclear energy. The main substance used today is Uranium 235. Uranium 235 is one of the two commonly occurring isotopes of Uranium. The other is Uranium 238. Uranium 238 can be used as nuclear fuel as well. It is fertile not fissile which means the it can be bred into nuclear fuel after it's absorbed a neutron. This all sounds complicated, but actually its really simple. To understand nuclear power all you really need to do is understand the neutrons. When a big atoms like uranium break into pieces releases some neutrons in the process. These neutrons go shooting of and hit other atoms. Based on how fast there going and what they hit different things can happen. I kn