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WorksheetsRadioactive pollution project
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What four radioactive elements are commonly used?
Uranium, Polonium, Radium, and Thorium
Curium,Plutonium,
Germanium,Radon
Polonium,Francium,
Dubnium,Hassium
Actinium, Radium,Astatine,
Tennessine
How much Uranium is used in a nuclear power plant?
35 tons of Uranium
178 tons of Uranium
1 ton of Uranium
27 tons of Uranium
How many Uranium pellets can be used to power a house for a year?
1 pellet
10 pellets
20 pellets
159 pellets
What are the chances of a accident at a nuclear power plant?
1 in 8 million
1 in 5 thousand
1 in 1 billion
1 in 257 thousand
True or False?
A person who has been exposed to Radiation is a threat to other people
True
False
How is spent nuclear waste contained?
In barrels with a radioactive symbol
In a bottle
In a dry-cast storage unit
How many fuel rods are used to make 1000 MWe (Megawatt electricity)?
1,000 fuel rods
70,000 fuel rods
76 fuel rods
50,000 fuel rods
How much nuclear waste is made a year?
3,000 tons
80,000 tons
2,000 tons
148,000 tons
True or False?
The volume of the waste is roughly around half the volume of a Olympic-sized
False
True
Select all the apply
Someone who is both exposed and contaminated with Radiation should do what?
Call your friends to come over and help you
Stay away from the public
Decontaminate the Radiation
Seek medical help
What happens to spent nuclear waste?
It is turned into metals that can be used to construction
It is thrown away to the dumpster behind the facility
It is contained in a dry-cast storage unit after being used in the reactor
Select all the apply
What outside facility event could cause a nuclear accident?
A natural disasters
Theft of the nuclear waste
An act of terrorism
Nuclear weapon testing
When contaminated with Radiation you should?
Change clothes
Wash off
Go to a doctor
Which Radioactive element is most commonly used?
Radium
Thorium
Uranium
Polonium
True or False?
The spent nuclear waste is contained and left unguarded because the cast is too heavy and enforced to steal?
True
False
