How much mass of uranium to be destroyed per minute to operate a nuclear reactor of $600\,MW$

The activity of a radioactive sample falls from $700 \;\mathrm{s}^{-1}$ to $500\; \mathrm{s}^{-1}$ in $30\;min$. Its half life is close to.........$min$

Two radioactive materials $X_1$ and $X_2$ contain same number of nuclei. If $6\,\lambda {s^{ - 1}}$ and $4\,\lambda {s^{ - 1}}$ are the decay constants of $X_1$ and $X_2$ respectively the ratio of number of nuclei, undecayed of $X_1$ to that of $X_2$ will be $\left( {\frac{1}{e}} \right)$ after a time 

${ }^{131} I$ is an isotope of Iodine that $\beta$ decays to an isotope of Xenon with a half-life of $8$ days. A small amount of a serum labelled with ${ }^{131} \mathrm{I}$ is injected into the blood of a person. The activity of the amount of ${ }^{131} \mathrm{I}$ injected was $2.4 \times 10^5$ Becquerel $(\mathrm{Bq})$. It is known that the injected serum will get distributed uniformly in the blood stream in less than half an hour. After $11.5$ hours, $2.5 \mathrm{ml}$ of blood is drawn from the person's body, and gives an activity of $115 \mathrm{~Bq}$. The total volume of blood in the person's body, in liters is approximately (you may use $\mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{x}} \approx 1+\mathrm{x}$ for $|\mathrm{x}| \ll 1$ and $\ln 2 \approx 0.7$ ).

For a radioactive material, half-life is $10$ minutes. If initially there are $600$ number of nuclei, the time taken (in minutes) for the disintegration of $450$ nuclei is

Define the average life of a radioactive substance.