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I'm pretty sure that conventional reactor split around as much fuel as the U-235 content.

For conventional reactors it is around 3% and you are left with around 3% fission products.

Natural uranium has around 0.7% U-235. But I0m pretty sure that you would enrich the uranium befor you send it to mars. The 16TJ/kg is for enriched uranium with 20% U-235 content.

Anyway, energy density of nuclear fuel is extremly high. Even if you pay 10000 USD/kg for the transport of fuel to mars, you'd pay around 1 cent/kwh for the transport.



Yes, it will be higher by few times for highly enriched uranium (90%+) or plutonium 239 (because of higher cross-section)




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