Amount of Uranium
Posted by JAC on 3/27/2011, 4:47 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/world/asia/18spent.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

total of 11,125 spent fuel rod assemblies were stored at the site

380 lbs of uranium per rod

Total amount of spent uranium = 2114 tons



500 active fuel rods in a reactor

Total amount of active uranium = 570 tons


The Hiroshima bomb had 142 lbs of Uranium.

1.3 lbs was converted to energy when it underwent fission.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy




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