6.6 The Case for Nuclear Power

What are the potential benefits of nuclear energy?

• Clean and reliable

• Expensive and dangerous

• Limited and unreliable

• Polluting and unsafe

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Nuclear energy offers a solution to ________.

• Climate change

• Economic crisis

• Political instability

• Social inequality

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Nuclear energy can contribute to a _______ future.

• Sustainable

• Uncertain

• Diminishing

• Chaotic

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Which of the following is NOT a benefit of nuclear energy in the text?

• Safe

• Reliable

• Expensive

• Clean

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Nuclear power plants use nuclear fission to release energy by splitting ____.

• Molecules

• Atoms

• Cells

• Particles

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Global standards in the nuclear industry ensure ________.

• Inconsistent safety measures

• Consistent safety measures across different countries

• No safety measures

• Localized safety measures

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Fill in the blank: Reprocessing technologies can extract ______ materials from spent fuel.

• harmful

• valuable

• useless

• toxic

True or False: Reprocessing increases the volume of nuclear waste.

• True

• False

Which of the following is a benefit of nuclear power?

• Emits greenhouse gases

• Requires large land areas

• Carbon-Free

• Inefficient in water use

Nuclear power plants are generally more efficient in _______ use than fossil fuel plants.

• Land

• Water

• Energy

• Time