Question: A 2 0 - gram reactor Uranium fuel pellet that has ? 2 3 5 U enhanced to 3 % is encapsulated and placed in

A 20-gram reactor Uranium fuel pellet that has ?235U enhanced to 3% is
encapsulated and placed in the reactor to generate power. After the fuel pellet
has been "burned up", so that only 0.5%?235U remains in the pellet, it is removed
from the reactor and scheduled for reprocessing. After sitting idle for three
months, the pellet is then reprocessed. How many grams of the element Xenon
might it be possible to recover and what would be the dominant isotopes in the
recovered element? Remember that products from fission are generally neutron
rich. (Hint: What isobars decay to "stable" Xe nuclides over 3 months?)
 A 20-gram reactor Uranium fuel pellet that has ?235U enhanced to

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