{"id":13294,"date":"2016-12-13T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T12:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sitepourvtc.com\/?page_id=13294"},"modified":"2022-10-19T08:57:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T08:57:50","slug":"energy-release-from-fission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sitepourvtc.com\/nuclear-power\/fission\/energy-release-from-fission\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Release from Fission"},"content":{"rendered":"
To calculate the power of a reactor, it is necessary to identify the individual components of this energy<\/strong> precisely. At first, it is important to distinguish between the total energy released<\/strong> and the energy that can be recovered in a reactor<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The total energy released<\/strong> in fission can be calculated from binding energies of the initial target nucleus to be fissioned and binding energies of fission products<\/a>. But not all the total energy can be recovered in a reactor. For example, about 10 MeV<\/strong>\u00a0is released in the form of neutrinos<\/a> (in fact,\u00a0antineutrinos<\/a>). Since the neutrinos are weakly interacting (with an extremely low cross-section of any interaction), they do not contribute to the energy that can be recovered in a reactor.<\/p>\n To understand this issue, we must first investigate a typical fission reaction<\/strong> such as the one listed below.<\/p>\n