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Thank you for your response. After taking what you said into consideration, I came up with this work for part b: I am however unsure as to what value would be input into the "absorption x-section" value. For part a, I was able to use a table in my textbook that had all of these values for...

Homework Statement I am currently taking an introductory course in nuclear engineering. We are using Lamarsh's Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, 3rd Ed. My question revolves around calculating fuel burnup and consumption rates for thermal reactors and fast reactors. In particular, problem...