Question

Why is the following situation impossible? An engineer working on nuclear power makes a breakthrough so that he is able to control what daughter nuclei are created in a fission reaction. By carefully controlling the process, he is able to restrict the fission reactions to just this single possibility:the uranium-235 nucleus absorbs a slow neutron and splits into lanthanum-141 and bromine-94. Using this breakthrough, he is able to design and build a successful nuclear reactor in which only this single process occurs.

Answer 1

The following reaction is impossible because the reaction will only yield a single neutron which is insufficient to attain the chain reaction.

What is a fission reaction?

• Fission reaction occurs when a neutron bangs into a larger atom where in the larger atom is forced to excite and is split into smaller atoms.
• The two smaller atoms resulting out of the reaction are called fission products.
• Moreover the reaction also release additional neutrons capable of initiating a chain reaction.
• Tremendous energy is released in the reaction when each atom splits into two.
• The above situation is impossible as only a single neutron is yielded from the reaction which cannot initiate a chain reaction.
• Considering the situation, he cannot design the nuclear reactor.

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