Nuclear Power

Nuclear Power's source comes from _________________.

• Uranium or Plutonium
• Coal
• Natural Gas
• Oil and/or Coal

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

When moving neutrons hit the nuclei of certain other atoms thereby causing them to disintegrate, and this happens repeatedly, it is said to be a _______________________.

• nuclear chain reaction
• alpha radiation
• nuclear half-life
• control rod

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

At a nuclear power plant, these are referred to as __________________.

• cooling towers
• reactor towers
• smoke stacks
• vapor chambers

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NGSS.HS-PS3-4

What product does a nuclear power plant produce for its customers?

• electricity
• a turbine
• hot water
• steam

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NGSS.HS-PS3-4

A fission reaction starts when _________

• A neutron collides with a nucleus

• 2 Nucleus collides with one another

• 2 Neutrons collide with one another

• 2 Neutrons collide with a single nucleus

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

The components of an atom are? (More than one answer)

• Protons

• Neutrons

• Electrons

• Bosons

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Nucluear Fission is ...

• the splitting of atoms

• the combining of atoms

• the stripping of atoms of their electrons.

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Where in a Nuclear plant is the water heated?

• Steam Generator

• Reactor Chamber

• Generator

• Cooling tower

What part of a nuclear reactor produces the heat that drives the nuclear reaction?

• turbine

• generator

• fuel rods

• control rods

• containment shell

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

What part of a nuclear reactor is spun around by the heated water?

• turbine

• generator

• fuel rods

• control rods

• containment shell