Fuels made from long-dead ancient plants and animals.
What are fossil fuels?
100
The fuel rods are made of this.
What is Uranium?
100
Release a tremendous amount of energy?
What are fission and fusion?
100
Hot, pressurized steam spins this.
What is a turbine?
100
Burning fossil fuels produces this which may contain airborne particulates.
What is smoke or pollution?
200
Crude oil
What is Petroleum?
200
These "bullets" are fired into the nuclei of fissile atoms.
What are neutrons?
200
Involves the nucleus of atoms.
What are fission and fusion?
200
In a fossil fuel power plant, it can also be called a boiler.
What is a combustion chamber.
200
If a nuclear reaction is not controlled it might result in the release of this into the environment.
What is radioactivity?
300
Mostly Methane
What is Natural Gas?
300
Nuclear energy is turned into electricity here.
Where is the Nuclear Reactor?
300
Splits atoms.
What is Fission.
300
Burning fossil fuels converts chemical potential energy into this.
What is thermal energy?
300
This fuel may contain sulfur and nitrogen compounds which can cause serious pollution like acid rain.
What is coal?
400
Separating petroleum into useful compounds is called fractional this.
What is Distillation?
400
The part of the Nuclear Reactor where nuclear reactions take place.
What is the Core?
400
Merges atoms.
What is fusion?
400
Nuclear fission converts nuclear potential energy into this.
What is thermal energy.
400
One gram of this can produce as much energy as the burning of 3,000,000 kilograms of coal.
What is uranium?
500
The main two byproducts from burning fossil fuels include water and this gas.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
500
These absorb neutrons to control the rate of the nuclear fission chain reactions.
What are control rods?
500
Powers the sun.
What is fusion?
500
Both nuclear reactors and fossil fuel power plants contain these that use electromagnetic induction to transform mechanical energy into electrical energy.
What are electric generators?
500
The potential for this fuel is great since it creates LOTS of energy and its only byproduct is Helium.