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Given information

We have to find the energy contained in 1kg of water if it's deuterium is used for nuclear fusion reaction.

The reaction is  

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
In Eq. 31–8a that is   , 4.00 MeV of energy is released for every 2 deuterium atoms.
The mass of water can be converted to a number of deuterium atoms.

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