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