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In a nuclear power plant, heat from radioactive decay boilswater and produces steam. If 250 Liters/min of water are turned tosteam, and the efficiency of this system is 0 .5575% thendetermine:

a)How many Joules/minute can be produced by this generator? Thelatent heat of vaporization of water is 2,230 J/g.

b) if the energy content of the enhanced Uranium fuel used inthe reactor is 500,000 MJ/kg (really!), how much Uranium PER YEARis “used” to boil water? In other words, since all the used Uraniummust be stored somewhere, how much waste does the reactor produceper year? Give your answer in metric tons (one ton = 1000 kg)

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