Nuclear Energy Quiz 8 (25 MCQs)

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1. How much does it cost to make a nuclear power plant?

2. How many countries use Nuclear energy

3. Radioactive materials have unstable _____

4. What is the charge of the neutron?

5. A nuclear reactor, or power plant, is a series of machines that can control nuclear _____ to produce electricity.

6. What is a CON about nuclear energy?

7. How does nuclear fusion compare to nuclear fission?

8. A series of ongoing fission reactions is known as?

9. Most of nuclear power plants rely on which of the following reactions to generate energy?

10. What ethical issue does the author raise in the "Yes" response?

11. A radioactive isotope has a half life of 30 years. At year 0, there are 400 radioactive atoms. How many are left after 120 years of decay?

12. What is radioactivity?

13. Has a mass of 4 and a charge of +2

14. What is a fission reaction?

15. Finish this equation _____ $\rightarrow$$^{137}$$_{56}$ Ba + $^{0}$$_{-1}$ e

16. What element is often used in nuclear reactions?

17. One of the elements used in generating nuclear power is _____

18. Which of these statements is NOT true?

19. City in the Ukraine that was evacuated in the year 1986 because of an explosion in one of the nuclear reactors.

20. Nuclear energy uses _____ to turn turbines to power a generator.

21. An advantage of nuclear energy is that _____

22. Below are steps for safety precautions when handling radioactive substance except

23. What are two common types of thermal reactors in the U.S.?

24. Iodine-131 is a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 8 days. How many grams of a 64 g sample of Iodine-131 will remain at the end of 24 days?

25. What happens to an isotope when its mass becomes too large and unstable?