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