A typical American has a carbon footprint of 40-ish tonnes peryear. If somehow, magically, all of that fossil-fuel consumptioncould be converted to nuclear fission energy, how much nuclearreactor fuel would you need to use? To perform this calculation,look up the energy you get for every carbon triple bond you use up(use that for the carbon mass-to- energy conversion, assming yourelease one carbon atom for every triple bond broken). You willalso need to look up the fission energy per uranium atom, and themass of the uranium atom, or equivalent.
That is, if an American converts 40 tonnes of carbon fossil-fuelusage per year over to uranium fission reactor nuclear energy, howmuch uranium would that person use per year? Give your answer inkg.
Now consider nuclear fusion: Look up the energy per atom andatomic mass for fusion reactions, in some ideal future in whichfusion is awesome. How much fusion fuel would each American needeach year? I prefer this answer in KG.
