An all-electric home uses approximately 1910 kWh of electric energy per month. How much uranium-235 would be required to provide this house with its energy needs for one year? Assume 100% conversion efficiency and 208 MeV released per fission.
An all-electric home uses approximately 1910 kWh of electric energy per month. How much uranium-235 would...
An all-electric home uses approximately 2 000 kWh of electric energy per month. How much uranium would be required to provide this house with its energy needs for one year ? Assume 100% conversion efficiency and 208 MeV released per fission.
The average energy released by the fission of a single atom of uranium-235 is approximately 205 MeV How much total energy would be released by the complete fission of 3.55 kg of 3sU? Express your answer in units of joules. 2.98 x1015 A typical small town might use about 25.5 MW of power, on average. How long, in days, would it take this town to use the amount of energy produced by the complete fission of 3.55 kg of 2U?...
Nuclear power plants convert the energy released in fission reactions to electric energy. Consider one such power plant that generates 1.00 GW of electric power. The fission of each uranium-235 nucleus releases 200 MeV of energy. The power released by the fission reactions is converted to electric power with a 41.0% efficiency. How much uranium-235 per day, by mass in kg, undergoes fission at this power plant?
The total energy consumed in the United States in 1 y is approximately about 8.1 times 10^19 J. How many kilograms of 235^U would be needed to provide this amount of energy if we assume that 190 MeV of energy is released by each fissioning uranium nucleus, that all of the uranium atoms undergo fission, and that all of the energy-conversion mechanisms used are 100% efficient?
Constants Periodic Table Part A A typical home uses approximately 1500 kWh of energy per month If the energy came from a nuclear reaction, what mass would have to be converted to energy per year to meet the energy needs of the home? Express your answer using two significant figures g/year Submit Request Answer
Burning 20 tons of coal provides about 5. 1011 J, which is approximately the annual energy requirement of an average person in the United States. If this amount of energy was provided by the electricity generated by the fission of uranium-235 in a nuclear reactor, instead, what mass of natural uranium would be required? About 0.7% of natural uranium is uranium-235 (almost all the rest is uranium-238, which does not fission like U-235 does). Assume that the fission of each...
Approximately how much more energy per gram is there in uranium in a fission reaction compared to gasoline in a combustion reaction? 10x 100x 1000x A million times A billion times
We know already that a typical household uses about 1000 kWh of energy in one month. Let's investigate the advantages of nuclear energy by considering the following problem: if you were given a gallon of water, how long could it supply fusion energy for your home? In this case, you are considering a fusion reaction between two deuterium nuclei which releases 4.0 MeV. We will follow this problem through to the end in stages. Part I: How many deuterium nuclei...
The average US citizen consumes 12000 kWh of electric energy per year an ‘ end use’ number and does not include the energy lost in converting other energy sources, e.g. fossil fuels to electricity. Note also that a kWh (kilowatt hour) is a unit of energy (not power) but a ‘kWh per year’ is a unit of power. The average electric bill indicates that a consumer pays about $0.12 per kWh of electric energy. Your Uncle Joe wants to get...
TABLE 4.1 Energy Comparisons Energy Joules) Item Energy of sunlight at Earth (per m- per second) Energy from metabolism of a cand 1.3 x 103 Energy needed to walk for 1 hour of a candy bar 1 hour 100 km/hr Kinetic energy of a car going 100 kr 1 X 106 1 x 106 1 X 106 1x10² Daily food energy need of average adult Energy released by burning 1 liter of oil Thermal energy of parked car Energy released...