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To understand what it means to “enrich” uranium, you need to know a little about uranium isotopes and about splitting the atom in a nuclear fission reaction.

To understand what it means to "enrich" uranium, you need to know a little about uranium isotopes and about splitting the atom in a nuclear fission reaction. What is an isotope?

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