Nuclear Chemistry and Chernobyl

The city of Chernobyl is located in which country?

• Latvia

• Ukraine

• Russia

• Germany

Roughly how many people died from the nuclear explosion?

• No one died in the explosion.

• Exactly 57 people died on impact.

• Exactly 100 people died on impact.

• The exact number is unknown.

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Which reactor at the Chernobyl power plant overheated and exploded?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which type of radiation has the greatest penetrating power?

• Alpha
• Beta
• Gamma 
• Microwaves

The nuclear process occurring at a nuclear power plant.

• Nuclear fusion
• Nuclear fission
• Combustion
• Multiplication

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Arrange in order of increasing ability to penetrate matter.

• Beta, gamma, alpha

• Alpha, gamma, beta

• Gamma, beta, alpha

• Alpha, beta, gamma

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During fission, some of the nuclear mass is converted into

• energy
• heavier nuclei
• critical mass
• protons

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Two or more nuclei combine to form one larger nucleus in the process of nuclear _____.

• Fusion
• Fission
• Tracing
• Decay

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The process of the production of lighter nuclei from heavier nuclei is called

• mass energy
• magneticism
• fusion
• fission

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Radioactive materials have unstable...

• electrons
• protons
• nuclei
• neutrons

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