You would drop in the uranium fuel source and it would be used to create more fuel.
Short version is most early nuclear science focused on breeder type reactors but they were abandoned when it was found that more conventional designs are a lot more feasible for producing weapons grade material.
Uranium 235 or plutonium 239, may be completed with Hydrogen for more energy release: deuterium and tritium.
AFIK natural uranium is mainly centrifugated
for the heavier 238 and lighter 235 to separate. Enriched uranium is just having a higher percentage of 235.
Miniature breeder reactor
You would drop in the uranium fuel source and it would be used to create more fuel.
Short version is most early nuclear science focused on breeder type reactors but they were abandoned when it was found that more conventional designs are a lot more feasible for producing weapons grade material.
The weapons grade stuff is U-235, right? Do conventional nuclear reactors enrich U-238 to U-235?
Uranium 235 or plutonium 239, may be completed with Hydrogen for more energy release: deuterium and tritium.
AFIK natural uranium is mainly centrifugated for the heavier 238 and lighter 235 to separate. Enriched uranium is just having a higher percentage of 235.
Plutonium 238 is man made in reactors