Nuclear 101
BWRX-300
Boiling Water Reactors
Fun Facts
Uranium
100
Type of energy that is created from nuclear power plants
What is Nuclear energy?
100
The X in BWRX-300 stands for
What is 10th generation?
100
Used as a moderator in Boiling Water Reactors
What is water?
100
The size of a uranium pellet
Approx. distance between tip of your pinky finger to your first knuckle (About an inch)
100
Most energy dense fuel: Uranium, coal, natural gas or oil
What is uranium?
200
nuclear energy is Renewable or Non-Renewable
What is Non-Renewable?
200
SMR stands for...
What is small modular reactor
200
Heat produced by fission is FIRST used to
What is boil water to steam?
200
All the used nuclear fuel from US operating nuclear reactors fits in this type of sports field
What is a football field?
(Only 10 yards of the field)
200
Which element is commonly used as fuel in nuclear power plant
What is Uranium?
300
The splitting of atoms
What is Nuclear fission?
300
The amount of electricity the BWRX-300 makes in megawatts.
What is 300 MW
300
The slowing down fast neutrons to increase the likelihood of fission
What is the purpose of a moderator?
300
Year the first commercial nuclear reactor was built
What is 1957?
300
The symbol for Uranium on a periodic table.
What is the symbol U?
400
Gas released from cooling towers
What is steam?
400
Days of cooling the ICS can provide without any operator action
What is 7 days?
400
The component that controls fission by absorbing neutrons
What is control rod?
400
Nuclear is responsible for __% of Ontario's electricity generation
What is 60%
400
Canadian province with the largest uranium deposits
What is Saskatchewan?
500
Advantages of nuclear energy:
Produces a small amount of waste, Nuclear power does not produce carbon dioxide, high capacity factor or all of the above
What is all of the above?
500
Type of fuel used in the BWRX-300
What is GNF2?
500
radioactive elements within the fuel continue to decay giving off heat need to be cooled in ...
What is a spent fuel pool?
500
If all the power you ever used came from nuclear, your lifetime waste could fit into
What is a soda can?
500
The number of protons in an atom of uranium-235. Hint: U-235 is an isotope of U-238 (natural uranium) which has 92 protons.
What is 92 protons?
Uranium always has 92 protons and isotopes have different numbers of neutrons