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Radioactive pollution project

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What four radioactive elements are commonly used?

a)

Uranium, Polonium, Radium, and Thorium

b)

Curium,Plutonium,

Germanium,Radon

c)

Polonium,Francium,

Dubnium,Hassium

d)

Actinium, Radium,Astatine,

Tennessine

2.

How much Uranium is used in a nuclear power plant?

a)

35 tons of Uranium

b)

178 tons of Uranium

c)

1 ton of Uranium

d)

27 tons of Uranium

3.

How many Uranium pellets can be used to power a house for a year?

a)

1 pellet

b)

10 pellets

c)

20 pellets

d)

159 pellets

4.

What are the chances of a accident at a nuclear power plant?

a)

1 in 8 million

b)

1 in 5 thousand

c)

1 in 1 billion

d)

1 in 257 thousand

5.

True or False?

A person who has been exposed to Radiation is a threat to other people

a)

True

b)

False

6.

How is spent nuclear waste contained?

a)

In barrels with a radioactive symbol

b)

In a bottle

c)

In a dry-cast storage unit

7.

How many fuel rods are used to make 1000 MWe (Megawatt electricity)?

a)

1,000 fuel rods

b)

70,000 fuel rods

c)

76 fuel rods

d)

50,000 fuel rods

8.

How much nuclear waste is made a year?

a)

3,000 tons

b)

80,000 tons

c)

2,000 tons

d)

148,000 tons

9.

True or False?

The volume of the waste is roughly around half the volume of a Olympic-sized

a)

False

b)

True

10.

Select all the apply

Someone who is both exposed and contaminated with Radiation should do what?

a)

Call your friends to come over and help you

b)

Stay away from the public

c)

Decontaminate the Radiation

d)

Seek medical help

11.

What happens to spent nuclear waste?

a)

It is turned into metals that can be used to construction

b)

It is thrown away to the dumpster behind the facility

c)

It is contained in a dry-cast storage unit after being used in the reactor

12.

Select all the apply

What outside facility event could cause a nuclear accident?

a)

A natural disasters

b)

Theft of the nuclear waste

c)

An act of terrorism

d)

Nuclear weapon testing

13.

When contaminated with Radiation you should?

a)

Change clothes

b)

Wash off

c)

Go to a doctor

14.

Which Radioactive element is most commonly used?

a)

Radium

b)

Thorium

c)

Uranium

d)

Polonium

15.

True or False?

The spent nuclear waste is contained and left unguarded because the cast is too heavy and enforced to steal?

a)

True

b)

False