Rep Program
Mn. Rep Facts
Nuclear Fuel
Basics Radiation
Radiation Types
100
A nuclear power plant disaster happened here in March of 1979.
What is the Three Mile Island incident?
This occurred in March 1979 in Pennsylvania.
100
Name two nuclear power plants in Minnesota.
Where are Monticello and Prairie Island Plants?
100
The uranium fuel in a nuclear power plant is in what form?
What are fuel pellets?
100
Alpha, beta and gamma radiation are all high energy forms of radiation that are collectively known as what?
What is Ionizing radiation?
100
This type of radiation is stopped by paper or skin.
What is alpha radiation?
200
After this disaster the off-site readiness was transferred to what Federal Agency?
What is FEMA?
200
The 50 mile zone around a power plant .
What is the Ingestion Planning Zone or IPZ?
200
A bunch of fuel rods grouped together are collectively known as what?
What are Fuel Assemblies?
200
Protons, Neutrons and electrons are components of what
Of an atom?
200
This type of radiation is stopped by dense materials.
What are X-ray and/or Gamma Rays?
300
This Federal Agency has control over nuclear power plants.
Who is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission?
300
Who administers the REP program at the State Level here in Minnesota?
What is the REP Program in Minnesota Homeland Security Emergency Management office?
300
The first barrier around the fuel?
What is fuel cladding?
300
Atoms with the same number of protons and different numbers of neutrons are called what?
What are Isotopes?
300
Neutron radiation can occur in a reactor. Who is it controlled?
What is water?
400
The Federal program that Fema set-up for off-site coordination of Nuclear Power plants.
What is the Federal REP Program?
400
Prairie Island Generating Plant uses what type of reactor to generate its power.
What is a pressurized water reactor?
400
The second barrier in providing safety in containing the nuclear power.
What is the reactor cooling system?
400
Atoms that are unstable and give off excess energy are called this.
What is radioactive?
400
There are two main sources of radiation that we are exposed to in our everyday lives. They are?
What is Natural and man-made radiation?
500
Minnesota is currently complying with the FEMA Radiological Emergencty Preparedness Manual that was released in what year?
Radiological Emergency Preparedness manual that was released in 2019?
500
The Monticello Generating Plant uses what type of nuclear reactor to generate its power to run the turbines.
What is Boiling Water Reactor?
500
The large safety structure around the reactor.
What is a containment vessel?
500
What does ALARA stand for?
What is as low as reasonably acheived?
500
Name what is transported away from the nucleus in the form of paricles or waves.
What is radiation?
