yavar
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How much 60% enriched uranium would be needed to fuel a nuclear sub typically?
depending how many fuel rod used in reactor ( the size of reactor core and Calandria)
and each rod takes between 100 to 200 pellet (12-g per one pellet),
so if the is first generation restore design with single fuel rod on in each
and Calandria has about 180 fuel channel
and with bit of waste in conversion and process of Uranium to pellet
i would say 300 to 400 KG
this is all based on first generation simple reactor otherwise we need PWR fuel bundle totally different calculation
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