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Given information

The neutron multiplication factor is

The average time between successive fissions in a chain of reactions is

Reaction of the rate increase

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
The fractional change in rate of reaction increase is,
 
                                     
 
Substitute for
      
                     
 
Here, is multiplication factor and is number of generations.
 
To address this problem, we must first determine number of  generation are required to maintain the chain reaction.
 

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