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Nuclear Energy Jeopardy
Created By: Greg Lavins
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Nuclear Energy Jeopardy
Nuclear Power Plants
Atomic Properties
Nuclear Waste Management
Implications of Nuclear Energy
History of Nuclear Energy
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Double Jeopardy
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The most commonly used fuel for nuclear fission.
Uranium-235
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The refining process of uranium ore.
Enrichment
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Location of the fission reaction in a nuclear power plant.
Reactor Core
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Circuit providing cool water to the condenser
Tertiary Water Circuit
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Uranium-238 is converted to this element in breeder nuclear fission.
Plutonium-239
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The sum of protons and neutrons in a nucleus.
Atomic Number
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The three particles that make up an atom.
Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons
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Isotopes of an element differ in their number of?
Neutrons
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The radioactive isotope(s) of hydrogen.
Tritium
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Three existing isotopes of uranium.
Uranium-238, Uranium-235, Uranium-234
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The two classifications of radioactive wastes.
Low level and high level
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Nuclear waste storage area currently under construction in Nevada
Yucca Mountain
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Law holding each state responsible for its own nuclear waste.
Low Level Radioactive Policy Act
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Geographical feature believed to be lead to the safest nuclear waste storage.
Stable rock formations or geographical stability.
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Solidification of nuclear waste into solid glass or ceramic logs.
Vitrification
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Fuel generating the majority of our nations electricity.
Coal
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Percent of our nation’s electricity generated by nuclear energy.
20%
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Primary reason that no nuclear power plants have been ordered for construction since 1976.
Overwhelming costs
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This fuel will not be replaced by nuclear energy because only 3% of our nations electricity is generated from it.
Oil
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This country has enough enriched plutonium and uranium to make over 40,000 nuclear bombs.
Russia, or the former Soviet Union
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Scientist who hypothesized how mass and energy are related on his equation E = mc2
Albert Einstein
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The first country to sucessfully detonate a nuclear weapon.
The United States of America
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The worst accident ever to occur at a nuclear power plant occurred here.
Chernobyl
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The most serious nuclear reactor accident in the U.S. occurred here.
Three Mile Island
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Total death toll of the Chernobyl incident.
Over 170,000
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Double JeopardyNuclear
AcronymsNuclear Energy
PoliciesNuclear
VocabularyIdentify That! Nuclear Energy
Fun-Facts
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U-235
Uranium 235
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Pu-239
Plutonium 239
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NIMBY (disposal policy)
Not In My Backyard
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MOX
Mixed Oxide (converted plutonium)
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IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
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Top secret project to create the first atomic weapon.
Manhattan Project
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Government policy making coal-burning power plants cleaner, thus providing more competition with nuclear power plants.
Clean Air Act
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Policy for building nuclear power plants that is more cost efficient than custom- building.
Standardizing or Standardization
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Agency overseeing nuclear energy useage worldwide.
IAEA or International Atomic Energy Agency
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Legislation that put the burden of developing permanent nuclear waste storage sites on the federal government.
Nuclear Waste Policy Act
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Fusion
The process in which two smaller atoms are combined
to create one larger atom.
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Atomic Mass
Equal to the sum of protons and neutrons in the nucleus.
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Changing of the nucleus of a radioactive element into the nucleus of another element.
Radioactive Decay
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Huge steel potlike structure surrounding the reactor core in a nuclear power plant.
Reactor Vessel
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Oncogenes
Genes that cause cancer
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The small particles orbiting the nucleus are…
Electrons
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This process is termed…
Nuclear Fission
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The large buildings emitting steam are called…
Cooling Towers
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These rods used in nuclear reactors will most likely be filled with…
Uranium or Uranium Pellets
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This process is termed…
Breeder Nuclear Fission
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Number of water circuits in a typical nuclear power plant.
Three: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
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Fuel generating more than one third of all air pollution in America, making nuclear energy seem desirable.
Coal
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Area with largest deposits of uranium.
Australia
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Country generating the highest percent of its total electricity from nuclear energy.
France
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Number of operational nuclear reactors in the America.
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