Sorry to burst your bubble but fusion is based on fusing 4 atoms of (H) hydrogen into 1 atom of (He) helium (with a number of other steps in between but this is the basic goal).
The helium atom has a slightly lower mass than the sum of the 4 hydrogen atoms.
The mass difference is converted into energy - E=mc2.
No element greater than Fe (Iron) can be fused and leave over any mass to be converted to energy.
So the heavier elements past atomic number #53 are useless to fusion.
Hence Uranium has no bearing on the pursuit of fusion.
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