Nuclear fuel rods are made out of hundreds of smaller fuel pins that contain enriched uranium. When a thermal water reactor is operating normally, several trillion uranium atoms can split apart in...

Nuclear fuel rods are made out of hundreds of smaller fuel pins that contain enriched uranium. When a thermal water reactor is operating normally, several trillion uranium atoms can split apart in each of these fuel pins each second. Assume that each fuel rod consists of 500 fuel pins and that there are 3 trillion ssions/s in each fuel pin. How much thermal energy does a fuel rod consisting of 500 of these fuel pins produce in 1 second?