1. A 1000-MW nuclear reactor requires about 1.3 g of U-235 per day per MW of electricity generated. Eighty-five percent of this mass is converted to fission products. (a) Calculate the mass of the fission products produced in one year by a 1000-MW plant. (b) Calculate the volume of the fission products if their average density is 10,000 kg/m: 2. Show that the following reactions are forbidden by the conservation of charge and/or baryon number. p+e +v,+n *+p-2+ 3. Determine the missing nuclei. (5] a. n+UMo++3,n b. n+ Xe + Sr + n + 'n 4. During an X-ray examination a person receives a dose of 80 rem in 4.0 kg of tissue. The RBE of the X-rays is 1.0. (a) Calculate the total energy absorbed by the body. (b) Calculate the energy in joules of each 40,000 eV X-ray photon. (c) Calculate the number photons absorbed by the person. 5. An electron in a hydrogen atom falls from n = 4 to n = 3 state. Calculate the wavelength of the emitted photon. 6. List the nim,m, ) states available to an electron in a 4p subshell.

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II. Problem Solving.
1. A 1000-MW nuclear reactor requires about 1.3 g of U-235 per day per MW of electricity
generated. Eighty-five percent of this mass is converted to fission products. (a) Calculate the mass
of the fission products produced in one year by a 1000-MW plant. (b) Calculate the volume of the
fission products if their average density is 10,000 kg/m:
2. Show that the following reactions are forbidden by the conservation of charge and/or baryon
number.
A° → p+e +v, +n
3. Determine the missing nuclei. (5]
a.
¿n+U-»Mo+_+3,n
b.
134y.
sXe + Sr + n + ¿n
4. During an X-ray examination a person receives a dose of 80 rem in 4.0 kg of tissue. The RBE of
the X-rays is 1.0. (a) Calculate the total energy absorbed by the body. (b) Calculate the energy in
joules of each 40,000 eV X-ray photon. (c) Calculate the number photons absorbed by the person.
5. An electron in a hydrogen atom falls from n = 4 to n = 3 state. Calculate the wavelength of the
emitted photon.
6. List the nlm,m, ) states available to an electron in a 4p subshell.
Transcribed Image Text:II. Problem Solving. 1. A 1000-MW nuclear reactor requires about 1.3 g of U-235 per day per MW of electricity generated. Eighty-five percent of this mass is converted to fission products. (a) Calculate the mass of the fission products produced in one year by a 1000-MW plant. (b) Calculate the volume of the fission products if their average density is 10,000 kg/m: 2. Show that the following reactions are forbidden by the conservation of charge and/or baryon number. A° → p+e +v, +n 3. Determine the missing nuclei. (5] a. ¿n+U-»Mo+_+3,n b. 134y. sXe + Sr + n + ¿n 4. During an X-ray examination a person receives a dose of 80 rem in 4.0 kg of tissue. The RBE of the X-rays is 1.0. (a) Calculate the total energy absorbed by the body. (b) Calculate the energy in joules of each 40,000 eV X-ray photon. (c) Calculate the number photons absorbed by the person. 5. An electron in a hydrogen atom falls from n = 4 to n = 3 state. Calculate the wavelength of the emitted photon. 6. List the nlm,m, ) states available to an electron in a 4p subshell.
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