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Offline Kosh

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Quick question
on: November 05, 2008, 04:22:40 am
One ton of Uranium used in a nuclear fission reactor has the equivalent energy of how many tons of coal being burned in a coal fired plant?
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Offline watsisname

Re: Quick question
Reply #1 on: November 05, 2008, 04:45:38 am
Quick answer:  It's probably equivalent to a lot more tons of coal.

Precise answer:  I think this would very strongly depend on what sort of fission reactor we're considering, there's more than one type afterall, and they don't all have the same efficiency.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission_reactor#Reactor_types for some info.  Can't say much for coal plants though...
I'm also not easily finding any figures for how much power can be produced with a given amount of uranium for these reactors, so this is a difficult question.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Quick question
Reply #2 on: November 05, 2008, 07:22:10 am
Yeah, but I'd like some good estimates.
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Re: Quick question
Reply #3 on: November 05, 2008, 07:59:45 am
six hundred and eighty two. :)
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Re: Quick question
Reply #4 on: November 05, 2008, 06:51:38 pm
Like I said, good estimates. :p Where is our resident physics expert?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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