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During the Cold War, the Premier of the Soviet Union threatened the United States with 2.0 megaton Pu239warheads. (Each would have yielded the equivalent of an explosion of 2.0 megatons of TNT, where 1 megaton of TNT releases 2.61028MeVof energy.) If the plutonium that actually fissioned had been 8.00% of the total mass of the plutonium in such a warhead, what was that total mass?

Short Answer

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The total mass of the plutonium is 1.3103kg.

Step by step solution

01

Given data

The mass of the plutonium isotope, m =2 megaton

The 8% of the total plutonium is fissioned.

megaton releases 2.61026MeVenergy.

The mass of plutonium, M =0.239 kg/mol

02

Determine the formulas to calculate the total mass.

The equation to calculate the number of the atoms in the sample is given as follows.

N=YQ ...(i)

Here,Y is the yield andM is the molar number.

The expression to calculate the mass is given as follows.

m=MN0 ...(ii)

Here,N0 is the actual number of the atom.

03

Calculate the total mass.

Calculate the yielded equivalent of the explosion.

Y=22.61028Y=5.21028MeV

The energy released in the typical fission process is 200 MeV

Calculate the number of the atom,

Substitute5.21028MeV for Y and 200 MeV for Q into equation (i).

N=5.21028MeV200MeVN=2.61026

The Actual number of the atoms are 8% actually fissioned of the total mass of plutonium.

N0=2.610260.0816.022023N0=3.2510276.0221023N0=5.41023mol

Calculate the total mass.

Substitute5.41023 forN and 0.239 kg/mol into equation (ii).

m=0.2395.4103m=1.3103kg

Hence the total mass is 1.31023kg.

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