Nuclear Energy Quiz 11 (25 MCQs)

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1. The Chernobyl plant generated electricity by superheating rods of

2. What types of reactions will produce radiation?

3. What does a generator do in a nuclear power plant?

4. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her work with radioactivity?

5. The splitting of an atom into smaller ones is called what?

6. Which nuclear power plant accident was caused by an earthquake?

7. Nuclear energy is

8. Reaction involving the nucleus

9. Is it renewable or non-renewable?

10. What makes something radioactive?

11. Where was the first atomic bomb exploded?

12. When small nuclei combine to produce a nucleus of greater mass

13. What process do humans use in in order to construct and use an Atomic Bomb?

14. Which of the following is true about nuclear fusion?

15. Which of the following best describes the process of nuclear fission?

16. Which is NOT a low level radioactive waste?

17. Which of the following is a harmful product of nuclear fission?

18. What would two different isotopes of an atom have in common?

19. Which nuclear case study was the worst to ever happen?

20. My teacher _____ nuclear energy.

21. New nuclei and neutrons result from

22. United States nuclear power plant construction stopped in the 1970s because of _____

23. The operation of a commercial nuclear reactor requires an isotope that will undergo

24. A nuclear reactor is

25. Complete the sentence:As time passes the level of radiation produced by a radioactive material _____