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