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Which process would release energy from gold, fission or fusion? Which would release energy from carbon? From iron?
Ordinary hydrogen is sometimes called a perfect fuel, both because of its almost unlimited supply on Earth and because, when it burns, harmless water is the product of the combustion. So why don’t we abandon fission and fusion energies, not to mention fossil-fuel energy, and just use hydrogen?
The fission process in a reactor is represented by the equation below:
U235 + n1 = La148+ Br85 + 3n1.
If the elements in the above equation have the following atomic mass units (a.m.u ):
U235 =235.124, n1 =1.009 La148= 147.96 and Br85 = 84.938.
Given that mass of 1 a.m.u =1.67 x 10 -27 kg and 1.619 x 10-19 J = eV.
235g of Uranium contains 6.03 x 1023 atoms.
a.Calculate the mass of Uranium atom that will be converted into heat energy by the fission process.
b. Calculate the total amount of energy in MeV released during the fission process
c.Calculate the amount of energy in J that can be obtained from one kilogramme of Uranium during a fission process
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