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