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Nuclear Reactor Efficiency and Fuel Disappearance by Salman Ahmad is a document available to read on EtoBox.
A nuclear power plant generates 1100 MW of electricity from a 3400 MW thermal reactor. The reactor contains 8.60x104 kg of 3.0% enriched uranium distributed among 5.70x104 fuel rods. The plant has an efficiency of 32%. Fission occurs at a rate of 1.1x1020 events per second. Uranium-235 fuel is disappearing at a rate of 4.5 kg per day due to fission and neutron capture.
- Author
- Salman Ahmad
- Language
- EN