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CSET Energy From Nuclear Reactors
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Answer 22 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Heat produced by Nuclear fission is used to produce steam from liquid water here
100% U-235
3% U-235
Moderator
Steam Generator
2. Percent of enriched uranium imported by the US from Russia
1/5th of US electricity
Radioactive tailings
Critical Mass
40% of enriched uranium
3. Emergency shutting down of a nuclear reactor
Cooling Towers
Run!
Critical Mass
U-238
4. Slow the chain reaction by absorbing neutrons
Control Rods
Formation of Plutonium
Two main nuclear plants in California
40% of enriched uranium
5. Occurs when U-238 captures a neutron
Steam Generator
U-235
149 gallons of oil
Formation of Plutonium
6. Fraction of US electricity that comes from nuclear energy
1/5th of US electricity
U-235
3% U-235
100% U-235
7. Enrichment level needed to make a bomb
1/5th of US electricity
Containment Structure
100% U-235
Run!
8. Nuclear reactors that produce more fuel than they use
U-235
Breeder reactors
Steam Generator
Moderator
9. Large structure that contains important parts in a nuclear powerplant
Reprocessing
15% of California's electricity
Containment Structure
Radioactive tailings
10. Nuclear power plants - reactors for spacecraft and ships - research reactors - production of radioisotopes in medicine
Containment Structure
Reprocessing
Uses of uranium
149 gallons of oil
11. A massive tower designed to dissipate waste heat from a power plant (or other industrial plant) in to the atmosphere.
U-238
Cooling Towers
Two main nuclear plants in California
1/5th of US electricity
12. Percent of California's electricity from nuclear power
13. Diablo Canyon - San Onofre
U-235
Radioactive tailings
Two main nuclear plants in California
Reprocessing
14. Most abundant isotope of uranium
Steam Generator
U-238
Formation of Plutonium
Cooling Towers
15. Radioactive material left behind from uranium mining operations
100% U-235
Radioactive tailings
Control Rods
Steam Generator
16. Uranium used to produce energy
Moderator
Breeder reactors
Critical Mass
U-235
17. Any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors
U-238
Cooling Towers
Critical Mass
Moderator
18. The minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction
U-235
Radioactive tailings
15% of California's electricity
Critical Mass
19. Reusing highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel by chemically separating the unused uranium and plutonium from other radioactive waste products.
Run!
Reprocessing
40% of enriched uranium
Two main nuclear plants in California
20. A method of safely storing high - level radioactive liquid wastes in solid form - as enormous glass logs.
1/5th of US electricity
Formation of Plutonium
40% of enriched uranium
Vitrification or Glassification
21. Enrichment level needed to operate a nuclear power plant
Reprocessing
Run!
3% U-235
Breeder reactors
22. Contains the same amount of energy as one pellet of enriched uranium
149 gallons of oil
100% U-235
Run!
3% U-235