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