Savvas Environmental Science Chapter 17

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the splitting of atomic nuclei

• a. nuclear energy

• b. nuclear fission

• c. nuclear fusion

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site of the worst nuclear accident in the United States

• a. Three Mile Island

• b. Chernobyl

• c. nuclear power plant

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

• a. Three Mile Island

• b. Chernobyl

• c. nuclear power plant

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contained in the nuclei of atoms

• a. nuclear energy

• b. nuclear fission

• c. nuclear fusion

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site of the worst nuclear accident in the world

• a. Three Mile Island

• b. Chernobyl

• c. nuclear power plant

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the combining of atomic nuclei

• a. nuclear energy

• b. nuclear fission

• c. nuclear fusion

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A nuclear reactor is

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

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

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

• d. constructed from thick aluminum walls to control nuclear reactions.

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New nuclei and neutrons result from

• a. nuclear fusion.

• b. the release of electrons from a positively charged atom.

• c. the splitting of an atom’s nucleus.

• d. the splitting of an atom’s neutron.

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Nuclear fusion

• a. must take place at extremely high temperatures.

• b. does not release a great amount of energy.

• c. must take place in low-density containers.

• d. 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

• a. can only be located in mountain ranges.

• b. will always leak lethal amounts of radioactivity.

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

• d. should be able to undergo the process of transmutation.