Nuclear Energy

Nuclear power uses ____ for fuel.

• steel
• coal
• uranium
• hydrogen

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Splitting a uranium atom is called - 

• fission
• fusion

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What is an advantage  of nuclear energy?

• radioactive waste
• no pollution
• we will never run out
• it is the safest way to make energy

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All of the following are problems of nuclear energy except ---

• storage of radioactive fuel
• pollution
• security concerns
• natural disasters (tsunamis, earthquakes, etc.)

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What nuclear process occurs in the sun?

• fission

• fusion

• endothermic

• atomic bomb

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The process where one neutron hits a nuclei, which causes it to split releasing more neutrons which hit more nuclei causing more more neutrons to be released which hit more nuclei and so for and so on is called what?

• fusion

• hydrogen bomb

• chain reaction

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Why does a nuclear power plant use water?

• to provide a controlled nuclear reaction

• to provide an uncontrolled nuclear reaction

• to heat up the reaction to make it go faster

• to slow down the half lifes

Fusion changes hydrogen into what?

• helium

• uranium

• U-238

• U-235

The amount of time it take for 1/2 of any sample to decay is know as its what?

• half life

• chain reaction

• half reaction

• U-235

Where, in 1986, did a fission nuclear power plant have an explosion that lead to over 1600 contracting cancer from the resulting radiation?

• Chernobyl, Ukraine

• 3 Mile Island

• Anchorage, Alaska

• Deep Water Horizon