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The fuel burned in those reactors comes from the sun and the reactor releases it.

• adrianN 6y ago
  The fuel in fact doesn't come from the Sun, but from other stars that went super nova before the solar system was formed. Normal fusion in stars in not hot enough to produce such heavy elements.
  • dangerface 6y ago
    Thanks, I didn't know that I thought it was like the rest.
    • adrianN 6y ago
      You may find this chart interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis#/media/File:Nucleosynthesis_periodic_table.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis#/media...
• detritus 6y ago
  I'd love to know more about how heavy elements got from the sun into the interior of our planet and then back out to near the surface again. Where can I learn about this process?
• deleted 6y ago
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