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