Nuclear Energy Jeopardy

Nuclear Energy Jeopardy

Created By: Greg Lavins

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

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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.

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