Thorium-232 has an average binding energy per nucleon of
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Problem
Thorium-232 has an average binding energy per nucleon of 7.6MeV. Suppose it undergoes fission into two identical fragments of mass number 116, each having an average binding energy per nucleon of 8.5MeV. Neglecting the kinetic energy of emitted neutrons, the energy released in one such fission event is closest to
(a) 104 MeV
(b) 200 MeV
(c) 418 MeV
(d) 93 MeV