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CSET Energy From Nuclear Reactors
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CSET Energy From Nuclear Reactors
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21 Questions

1. Slow the chain reaction by absorbing neutrons

2. Most abundant isotope of uranium

3. Uranium used to produce energy

4. Occurs when U-238 captures a neutron

5. Any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors

6. Large structure that contains important parts in a nuclear powerplant

7. Reusing highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel by chemically separating the unused uranium and plutonium from other radioactive waste products.

8. Nuclear reactors that produce more fuel than they use

9. Emergency shutting down of a nuclear reactor

10. Diablo Canyon - San Onofre

11. Enrichment level needed to operate a nuclear power plant

12. Fraction of US electricity that comes from nuclear energy

13. Percent of enriched uranium imported by the US from Russia

14. A massive tower designed to dissipate waste heat from a power plant (or other industrial plant) in to the atmosphere.

15. Contains the same amount of energy as one pellet of enriched uranium

16. Heat produced by Nuclear fission is used to produce steam from liquid water here

17. A method of safely storing high - level radioactive liquid wastes in solid form - as enormous glass logs.

18. Enrichment level needed to make a bomb

19. Nuclear power plants - reactors for spacecraft and ships - research reactors - production of radioisotopes in medicine

20. The minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction

21. Radioactive material left behind from uranium mining operations