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Nuclear Energy
Uranium
Impacts
Nuclear Fusion/Fisson
Daily Uses
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What is Nuclear Energy?
Energy that generates energy.
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What is uranium?
Uranium is a very heavy metal that can be used as a abundant source of concentrated energy.
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What do power plants use that can affect the environment?
Power plants requires water form lakes or rivers, which can affect the aquatic life.
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What does Nuclear Fission created?
Steam
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What is something the U.S. uses with Nuclear Energy?
The U.S. uses Nuclear Energy in the Military Ships and submarines for engines. Another thing it is used for the telephone poles that are located almost everywhere you go in order to get connection on your phone.
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What is required for nuclear power plants to work?
Nuclear power plants use the heat from nuclear fission to produce water into steam.
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Where can uranium be found?
Uranium occurs in most rocks in concentrations of 2 to 4 parts per million. It is also occurs in seawater and can be recovered from the oceans.
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What do power plants release that can cause pollution?
Power plants sometimes releases discharge small amounts of tritium and other radioactive elements to water sources, which leads to pollution.
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What is Nuclear Fission (What is it's purpose?)
Is a source of energy that creates steam in order to generate the turbines from the power plants.
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What is things can we easily get affected by daily?
Possible Answers: The air that surrounds us all the time, and the food we eat.
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What happens to the reactors when it overheats?
If reactors are too hot, control rods are lowered to cool it down. If any emergency, rods drop in and shuts the reactor.
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What impact is caused by mining uranium?
Waste from uranium mining operations and rainwater runoff can contaminate groundwater and surface water resources.
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What does nuclear fusion make that can be dangerous?
Nuclear Fusion is the way hydrogen bombs are built.
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What is the process in order to create steam?
Nuclear fission makes the neutrons smash into the nucleus of the uranium atoms, which split roughly in half and release energy in the form of heat.
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When do we use Nuclear Energy?
We usually use Nuclear Energy when we are going to get X-rays. Desalination to convert seawater to clean water.
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Every 18 to 24 months, a power plant is shut down in order to remove all its’ spent uranium fuel, in other words radioactive waste. What happens to the power plants every 18-24 months?
Every 18 to 24 months, a power plant is shut down in order to remove all its’ spent uranium fuel, in other words radioactive waste.
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Name one type of uranium mining and describe them.
Open Pit mining is where a large hole is built to mine. There are a lot of waste rocks gathered with this process. Underground Mining is built underground with access shafts and tunnels. There are less waste rocks gathered and less environmental impacts, but more dangerous than open pit mining.
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Name two chemicals that nuclear power can generate.
Possible answers:tritium, cesium, krypton, neptunium, and forms of iodine.
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What can Nuclear Fusion created?
A Hydrogen Bomb.
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What is something that we use in order to not get radiation in us from food?
Fertilizers Fertilizers with radiation are expensive and if not properly used, it can damage the environment.
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CO2 or H20 is pumped through the reactor to take the heat away. -> Steam -> drives turbines which drive generators. What is the process to make the turbines generate?
CO2 or H20 is pumped through the reactor to take the heat away ----> Steam ----> drives turbines which drive generators.
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Name three states that have uranium mining.
Possible answers: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and South Dakota
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Do we have radiation? From where? How?
Yes, majority of the people who live on this earth (everybody) has been exposed to radiation. Either by chemicals that have been released in the air from planes or power plants themselves or medicine that we have taken from the doctors. Now, don't freak out!
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What could a Hydrogen Bomb do?
It could basically blow up anything within 1 mile away from where it blew up. Within 10 miles you would have 30 minutes to prepare for the radiation
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What country do you think uses the most energy?
That's an easy answer; Japan. When it comes to the consumption and use of nuclear power based electricity, no one uses more than Japan.