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Problem 10
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Section: Questions
Chapter 31: Nuclear Energy; Effects and Uses of Radiation
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4 Feb 2022
Given information
Ordinary water is used a moderator in a nuclear reactor that uses highly enriched uranius.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
The best moderators that are used have the mass of neutrons equal to that of the fission neutrons.
Because of this reason theoretically ordinary water can be used as a moderator.
But in actuality it would absorb the neutrons of the reaction and the chain reaction would stop.
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