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