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INGOMAR MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE     NAME: ______________________
NUCLEAR: BILL NYE VIDEO             Period: ______ Date: __________ Score_______/ 20

  1. Who made this film? _______________ Educational Productions.
  2. The movie opens a ______________ trying to make nuclear waste disappearing.
  3. Who is leading the investigation in this video? Eyes of  ___________.
  4. One ___________ car can keep a Nuclear power plant running for a year.
  5. Coal fired plants require about a train car load ________________to run a conventional plant.
  6. The three worries with nuclear power are 1)  ___________  2)_____________  3)_____________.
  7. There are  _______ nuclear power plants in the United States that provide _____% of the power.
  8. Give the three parts to a Nuclear Reactor: _____________     _____________       _____________                                                                              
  9.  Nuclear Power Plants are very _______________.
  10. In chain reaction demo the ping pong balls represent? _________________.
  11. The process of  _____________ releases energy and more neutrons.      *Note: see question # 22*
  12. A nuclear power plant can create 1.2 ___________watts of energy.
  13. Waste created by a nuclear power plant in 60 years would fit in a convenient ____________.
  14. Waste produced by a coal fired plant over 60 years would be _________ times the above answer.
  15. Dry storage of radioactive waste upon contact is one  ___________ (an X ray is 20 milli Rem).
  16. Radiant energy examples are light, _____________.
  17. Nuclear produces Ionizing radiation that can cause___________ .
  18. The first nuclear reactor was built in Pennsylvania in  ______.
  19.  Where is the site of the proposed nuclear waste storage area for our county?___________, Nevada
  20. _________________ is a process proposed to reduce the radioactive concentration.
  21. Was this video Pro or Con for Nuclear energy (circle one)?           Pro      or         Con
  22. Describe the steps to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant: The reactor creates heat that ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
  23. What do you think about this issue of nuclear power?____________________________________
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fusion                    fission             train                Einstein           Nye                 Disney                        everyday

 

once     twice         three               Transmutation            terrorist                      meltdown        magician

 

secure                   10%                20%                reactor            waste               steam              microwaves

 

electrons               protons            neutrons          Mega              Giga                turbine            generator

 

103                        200                  store                gas station      million millirem           Yucca Mt.

 

cancer                   sunburn           1957                1960                1980                Las Vegas      Pittsburgh  
    

 PWR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT      I.M.S. SCIENCE      Name(s): _________________________

   COMPLETE:                                                                     Period: ______ Date:`___________  SCORE:____   / 20

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HOW A PWR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PRODUCES ELECTRICITY:

Questions:

      1. Describe briefly how the electricity from a power plant is delivered to your home.

 

2. Describe how a general power plant uses steam to produce electricity.

 

3. Define the term nucleus

 

4. Define the term fission.

 

5. Define the term fusion

 

6. Define the term chain reaction.

 

7. Describe how uranium is used to produce electricity.

 

8. List and describe the three major systems of a PWR plant.

 

9. List and describe the two methods used by plant operators to control the fission process.

 

10. State three safety barriers used by U.S. nuclear plants to protect the public from the release of radiation.

            1.

            2.

            3.

11. Illustrate the primary system of a PWR (Pressurized water Reactor) power plant.
(Four major components of the primary system)

Indicate or show the following items or things:

 

- Flow of the reactor coolant water through the whole system (1)

- Inlet and outlet nozzle of the reactor (2)

- Flow of primary coolant water through the reactor (3)

- Flow of primary coolant water through the generator (4)

- Show the hottest and coolest temperature of the primary coolant water into or out of the
   reactor (5)

- Show the hottest and coolest temperature of the primary coolant water into or out of the steam
   generator (6)

- Show where pressure is controlled or adjusted (7)

- Show where steam is produced (8)

- Indicate what system the steam goes to (9)

- Show or indicate what components are in containment (10)

- Show anything of significance that you learned about a pressurized water reactor
   nuclear power plant.