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