Nuclear Energy Jeopardy
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Nuclear Energy Jeopardy
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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
The most commonly used fuel for nuclear fission.
Uranium-235
The refining process of uranium ore.
Enrichment
Location of the fission reaction in a nuclear power plant.
Reactor Core
Circuit providing cool water to the condenser
Tertiary Water Circuit
Uranium-238 is converted to this element in breeder nuclear fission.
Plutonium-239
The sum of protons and neutrons in a nucleus.
Atomic Number
The three particles that make up an atom.
Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons
Isotopes of an element differ in their number of?
Neutrons
The radioactive isotope(s) of hydrogen.
Tritium
Three existing isotopes of uranium.
Uranium-238, Uranium-235, Uranium-234
The two classifications of radioactive wastes.
Low level and high level
Nuclear waste storage area currently under construction in Nevada
Yucca Mountain
Law holding each state responsible for its own nuclear waste.
Low Level Radioactive Policy Act
Geographical feature believed to be lead to the safest nuclear waste storage.
Stable rock formations or geographical stability.
Solidification of nuclear waste into solid glass or ceramic logs.
Vitrification
Fuel generating the majority of our nations electricity.
Coal
Percent of our nation’s electricity generated by nuclear energy.
20%
Primary reason that no nuclear power plants have been ordered for construction since 1976.
Overwhelming costs
This fuel will not be replaced by nuclear energy because only 3% of our nations electricity is generated from it.
Oil
This country has enough enriched plutonium and uranium to make over 40,000 nuclear bombs.
Russia, or the former Soviet Union
Scientist who hypothesized how mass and energy are related on his equation E = mc2
Albert Einstein
The first country to sucessfully detonate a nuclear weapon.
The United States of America
The worst accident ever to occur at a nuclear power plant occurred here.
Chernobyl
The most serious nuclear reactor accident in the U.S. occurred here.
Three Mile Island
Total death toll of the Chernobyl incident.
Over 170,000
Double JeopardyNuclear
AcronymsNuclear Energy
PoliciesNuclear
VocabularyIdentify That! Nuclear Energy
Fun-Facts
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U-235
Uranium 235
Pu-239
Plutonium 239
NIMBY (disposal policy)
Not In My Backyard
MOX
Mixed Oxide (converted plutonium)
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
Top secret project to create the first atomic weapon.
Manhattan Project
Government policy making coal-burning power plants cleaner, thus providing more competition with nuclear power plants.
Clean Air Act
Policy for building nuclear power plants that is more cost efficient than custom- building.
Standardizing or Standardization
Agency overseeing nuclear energy useage worldwide.
IAEA or International Atomic Energy Agency
Legislation that put the burden of developing permanent nuclear waste storage sites on the federal government.
Nuclear Waste Policy Act
Fusion
The process in which two smaller atoms are combined
to create one larger atom.
Atomic Mass
Equal to the sum of protons and neutrons in the nucleus.
Changing of the nucleus of a radioactive element into the nucleus of another element.
Radioactive Decay
Huge steel potlike structure surrounding the reactor core in a nuclear power plant.
Reactor Vessel
Oncogenes
Genes that cause cancer
The small particles orbiting the nucleus are…
Electrons
This process is termed…
Nuclear Fission
The large buildings emitting steam are called…
Cooling Towers
These rods used in nuclear reactors will most likely be filled with…
Uranium or Uranium Pellets
This process is termed…
Breeder Nuclear Fission
Number of water circuits in a typical nuclear power plant.
Three: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
Fuel generating more than one third of all air pollution in America, making nuclear energy seem desirable.
Coal
Area with largest deposits of uranium.
Australia
Country generating the highest percent of its total electricity from nuclear energy.
France
Number of operational nuclear reactors in the America.
104