E.4.1—Fission energy release Topic Practice
E.4.1—Fission energy release Topic Practice
Practise balancing fission reactions and calculating the energy released per fission, specific energy and fuel mass from reactor power data.
How this is tested
- balance a U-235 fission equation to determine how many neutrons are emitted after conserving nucleon number
- show the energy release using binding energy per nucleon data, then convert a MeV result into joules
- use energy per fission, efficiency and power output to calculate U-235 mass consumed over a stated time