Nuclear Power

Nuclear power plants are usually good to operate for about ____________________.

• 30-40 years

• 10 years

• 100 years

• 90 years

When a nuclear power plant is ready to be shut down and abandoned, it is called _____________________.

• decommissioning

• a melt down

• impoundment

• waste management

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

• cooling towers

• reactor towers

• smoke stacks

• vapor chambers

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________ are fuels for nuclear power (More than one answer)

• Uranium

• Plutonium

• Coal

• Oil/Gas

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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The heating of water into steam in a nuclear reactor is done to eventually turn what in the plant?

• A condensate unit.

• A big wheel.

• A generator.

• A coal digger mechanism.

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Where in a Nuclear plant is the water heated?

• Steam Generator

• Reactor Chamber

• Generator

• Cooling tower

When uranium is first mined out of the ground, it is called _____________________.

• uranium ore

• plutonium

• milled uranium

• enriched uranium

What force keeps the components of an atom together?

• Gravitational

• Electromagnetic

• Weak Force

• Strong Force

Which of the following results in the release of nuclear energy?

• Only the breaking of nuclear bonds.

• Only the forming of nuclear bonds.

• Both the breaking of nuclear bonds and the forming of nuclear bonds.

• Neither the breaking of nuclear bonds nor the forming of nuclear bonds.

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