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(a) Name two isotopes of uranium which a...

(a) Name two isotopes of uranium which are fissionable.
(b) Which of the isotope mentioned in part (a) above is easily fissionable ? Give reason. (c ) State whether the neutron needed for fission reaction of the isotope mentioned in part (b) above, is slow or fast ?

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