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The energy released by the fission of a single uranium nucleus

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The energy released by the fission of a single uranium nucleus is $200 MeV$ . The number of fissions of uranium nucleus per second required to produce $16 MW$ of power is (Assume efficiency of the reactor is $50%$ )

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2 \times 1 0^{6}

2.5 \times 1 0^{6}

5 \times 1 0^{6}

None of these

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It means we are getting only

100 MeV

of energy by the fission of one uranium nucleus.
Number of nuclei per second

= \frac{Energy required per second}{Energy obtained by one fission}

= \frac{16 \times 1 0 ^{6}}{100 \times 1.6 \times 1 0 ^{- 13}} = 1 0^{18}

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Question Text	The energy released by the fission of a single uranium nucleus is $200 MeV$ . The number of fissions of uranium nucleus per second required to produce $16 MW$ of power is (Assume efficiency of the reactor is $50%$ )
Updated On	Sep 25, 2022
Topic	Nuclei
Subject	Physics
Class	Class 12
Answer Type	Text solution:1 Video solution: 1
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