Nuclear Waste

What is nuclear waste?

• used reactor fuel

• irradiated tools and clothing

• old reactor parts

• all of the above

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Reactor fuel can be used in a reactor to generate heat for ____ years before refueling.

• 1-2

• 2-4

• 4-8

• 10-20

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Choose the option that is NOT used to deal with spent reactor fuel.

• stored underground

• stored in storage pools at the reactor

• recycled in a special chemical factory

• fired into the sun on a rocket

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Which is NOT a problem long-term underground storage of nuclear waste.

• the waste will last for 10,000 years

• waste may leak into the water table

• earthquakes

• thieves stealing waste

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What does the US currently do with its nuclear waste?

• store at reactors in storage pools

• ship to Yucca Mountain and bury

• recycle in a reprocessing plant

• dump directly into rivers

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What does France do with its nuclear waste?

• bury and store underground

• recycle in a reprocessing plant

• sneak into Germany and dump it in there

• store at nuclear reactors in fuel pools

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Choose a disadvantage of recycling nuclear fuel

• 1% of the recycled fuel is weapons-grade plutonium

• 4% of the recycled fuel is contaminated

• 95% of the recycled fuel is uranium

• 0% of the recycled fuel is water

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The United States does not recycle fuel because

• reprocessing was banned in 1979

• reprocessing was banned in 1776

• it does not have the technology to recycle nuclear fuel

• it is cheaper to store the waste in the ground

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The name of the only nuclear power plant to experience a core explosion was

• Ignalina

• Chernobyl

• Fukushima

• Three Mile Island

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The proposed long-term repository for nuclear waste in the US is named

• Yucca Mountain, NV

• Cheronbyl, Ukraine

• Los Alamos, NM

• Fukushima, Japan

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