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In the process, the fissionable isotope Uranium 235, which accounts for 0.7 percent of the ore, is extracted, while the remaining 99.3 percent of the unfissionable isotope, Uranium 238, becomes "low yield" radioactive waste.
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The unfissionable component undergoes a number of nuclear reactions, turning some of it into plutonium.
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The plutonium also includes fissionable and unfissionable components.
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