Ch 17 Sec 2 - Nuclear Energy

the splitting of the atomic nuclei

• nuclear energy

• nuclear fission

• nuclear fusion

• nuclear power plant

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site of the worst nuclear accident in the United States

• Three Mile Island

• Chernobyl

• Area 51

• Normandy Beach

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site of the worst nuclear accident in the world

• Three Mile Island

• Chernobyl

• Area 51

• Normandy Beach

costs more than $3,000 per kilowatt of electrical capacity

• nuclear energy

• nuclear fission

• nuclear fusion

• nuclear power plant

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contained in the nuclei of atoms

• nuclear energy

• nuclear fission

• nuclear fusion

• nuclear power plant

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the combining of atomic nuclei

• nuclear energy

• nuclear fission

• nuclear fusion

• nuclear power plant

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A nuclear reactor is

• powered by a combustion chamber in which uranium is burned.

• surrounded by a thick pressure vessel filled with a cooling fluid.

• superheated by water until the control rods are set into motion.

• constructed from thick aluminum walls to control nuclear reactions.

New nuclei and neutrons result from

• nuclear fusion.

• the release of electrons from a positively charged atom.

• the splitting of an atom’s nucleus.

• the splitting of an atom’s neutron.

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Nuclear fusion

• must take place at extremely high temperatures.

• does not release a great amount of energy.

• must take place in low-density containers.

• results in nuclei that are lighter in weight than the nuclei that existed before the reaction.

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Storage sites for nuclear wastes

• can only be located in mountain ranges.

• will always leak lethal amounts of radioactivity.

• must be located in areas that are extremely geologically stable.

• should be able to undergo the process of transmutation.

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