A household consumes 18 kWh of electrical energy in one day

PHYSICS · Subjective · CBSE · Physics · Nuclei · Nuclei

Problem

A household consumes 18 kWh of electrical energy in one day. The reactor supplying the house works at 30% overall efficiency in converting the nuclear energy of 235U^{235}\mathrm{U} fission (200 MeV per fission) into electricity. Determine the number of fission events required for that day. Use 1 eV=1.6×10−19 J1\,\text{eV}=1.6\times10^{-19}\,\text{J}.

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