Nuclear Energy

How do nuclear power-plants work?

• Fusion
• Half-life
• Fission
• Fusion or fission

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Takes two small nuclei and combines them into a larger nucleus

• fission
• fusion

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The splitting of a nucleus into smaller nuclei is

• fusion
• fission
• half-life
• gamma radiation

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Where does fusion occur naturally?

• Underwater
• All around us
• In the radioactive waste
• On the sun

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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 air pollution
• we will never run out
• it is the safest way to make energy

Nuclear power uses ____ for fuel.

• steel
• coal
• uranium
• hydrogen

Nuclear energy uses _____ to turn turbines to power a generator.

• wind
• water
• steam
• solar

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Energy is stored in the ___ of an atom.

• proton
• neutron
• electron cloud
• nucleus

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Uranium is found in 

• the sun
• hydrogen
• rocks in the ground
• xrays

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