How much uranium was consumed through fission in the bomb


The first atomic bomb released energy equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT. If 1 ton of TNT releases 4x109 J, how much uranium was consumed through fission in the bomb? Assume 208 MeV per fission; 1 MeV = 1.6x10-13 J; 235 g of U has 6x1023 atoms.

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