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