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