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Exploring Nuclear Power: A Comprehensive Quiz

This quiz explores various aspects of nuclear power, from its applications in space vehicles to the functioning and ecology of nuclear power plants. Test your knowledge on critical terms, concepts, and locations involved in nuclear energy.

#Nuclear Power #Energy #Environmental Science #Nuclear Technology #Nuclear Reactor #Renewable Energy #Marine Propulsion

1 [10] A few space vehicles have been launched using full-fledged ________: the Soviet RORSAT series and the American SNAP-10A.

2 What does the following picture show?  Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA   Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA   The Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, a boiling water reactor. The reactors are located inside the rectangular containment buildings towards the front of the cooling towers.   History of the use of nuclear power (top) and the number of active nuclear power plants (bottom).

3 Subcritical reactors or ________ could also reduce the time the waste has to be stored.

4 IAEA Website The ________

5 Many military and some civilian (such as some ________) ships use nuclear marine propulsion, a form of nuclear propulsion.

6 Fission splits the atom into two or more smaller nuclei with kinetic energy (known as ________) and also releases gamma radiation and free neutrons.

7 Colocation of plants that can take advantage of this thermal energy has been suggested by ________ (ORNL) as a way to take advantage of process synergy for added energy efficiency.

8 [73] Underground storage at ________ in U.S.

9 What does the following picture show?  The CANDU Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is the second largest nuclear power plant in the world.   Brunswick Nuclear Plant discharge canal   The first light bulbs ever lit by electricity generated by nuclear power at EBR-1 at what is now Idaho National Laboratory.   The nuclear fuel cycle begins when uranium is mined, enriched, and manufactured into nuclear fuel, (1) which is delivered to a nuclear power plant. After usage in the power plant, the spent fuel is delivered to a reprocessing plant (2) or to a final repository (3) for geological disposition. In reprocessing 95% of spent fuel can be recycled to be returned to usage in a power plant (4).

10 ________-burning plants are particularly noted for producing large amounts of toxic and mildly radioactive ash due to concentrating naturally occurring metals and mildly radioactive material from the coal.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the ocean liner SS Leonardo da Vinci was constructed in 1960 with provisions to be nuclear-powered.
  • the first major anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany took place in 1975 in opposition to the construction of a proposed nuclear power station in Wyhl.
  • scenes for the 2009 television advertisement The Life were filmed inside the cooling tower of an active nuclear power station.
  • Offshore Power Systems, a joint venture between Westinghouse Electric and Newport News Shipbuilding, spent more than $125 million during the 1970s but never built a floating nuclear power plant.
  • Japan Steel Works is the only company in the world which can make the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, and a backlog may lead to a global delay in constructing nuclear power plants.
  • Nikolaus Riehl researched the production of uranium in Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union, and the civil use of nuclear power in West Germany.
  • Igor Spassky, the head of the Russian Rubin Design Bureau, was the chief designer of 187 submarines (91 diesel-electric and 96 nuclear) as well as Halliburton oil platforms and the marine part of the Sea Launch complex.
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