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I’m studying for my Physics class and don’t understand how to answer this. Can you help me study?
An average efficiency for a nuclear power plant is 35%. How much mass of uranium-235 is required to produce 2.49 PWh of electricity? The fission reaction is Uranium-235 colliding with a neutron and splitting into Krypton-92, Barium-141 and 3 other neutrons. I've calculated that the energy of a single uranium-235 atom released is 2.5977713481*10^-11 Joules.