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Calculate how much coal is equivalent to 1kg of `.^(235)U`. Given that 200 MeV is released per fission process and 8000 kcal is released as heat of combustion of 1 kg of coal. Avogadro constant `= 6.1 xx 10^(26) Kg mol^(-1)`

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