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1) LEDE-HISTORY             2) NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION

Two quizzes on Nuclear power (Wikipedia permalink). The un-shuffled version of this quiz serves as a good pre-reading activity for the article. For information on how to print out test copies (and other questions) see How to use testbank.

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Nuclear power LEDE-HISTORY (one of two quizzes)

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1 What fraction of the world's electricity was produced by nuclear power in 2012?

	63%
	13%
	3%
	33%

2 How does Wikipedia assess the prospects of commercial fusion power production before 2050?

	likely
	unlikely
	impossible
	expected

3 In terms of lives lost per unit of energy generated, evidence suggests that nuclear power has caused ______ fatalities per unit of energy generated than the other major sources of energy.

	comparable
	less
	more

4 According to Wikipedia, the amount of green house gasses associated with the construction and maintenance of nuclear power plants is ________ than the emissions associated with other renewable sources (wind, solar, and hydro power.)

	about the same
	less
	greater

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5 Estimates of additional nuclear generating capacity to be built by 2035 fell by ______ percent after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011.

	50
	10
	90

6 From the figure depicting percentage of power produced by nuclear power plants, we see that the proper ranking from greatest to least reliance on nuclear power for three nations is

	France, United States, with Turkey least reliant.
	France ,Turkey , with the United States least reliant.
	United States, France, with Turkey least reliant.
	United States, Turkey, France least reliant.

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7 It was discovered that radioactive elements released immense amounts of energy according to the principle of mass–energy equivalence in the ______

	late 19th century
	early 20th century
	early 19th century

8 Chadwick's discovery of the neutron was significant because neutrons

	are an excellent fuel for nuclear power
	are not radioactive
	can be used to create radioactive material at a low price

9 Ernest Rutherford's "moonshine" was

	what called neutrons
	what he called the idea of harnessing nuclear power
	what he called the idea of relying on fossil fuels
	what he called alpha particles

10 Chadwicks discovery of the neutron was significant because

	neutrons permit induced radiation
	neutrons are stable
	neutrons are slow

11 Neutrons and protons both have "strong" short range interactions with the nucleus. Why can't slow protons be used to cause nuclei to undergo fission?

	protons are positively charged
	slow protons can induce fission but they are too expensive to produce
	slow protons are attracted to the nucleus
	protons move at the speed of light

12 Fermi used _______ to create what he thought was _______

	slow neutrons;   "moonshine"
	"moonshine";   fast neutrons
	slow neutrons;   a new element heavier than uranium (called a transuranic element)
	transuranic (heavy) elements;   a new source of slow neutrons

13 Fermi thought he had discovered ________, when he actually discovered ________

	fusion;   hesparium
	hesperium;   fission
	hesperium;   fusion
	fission;   hesparium

14 Which was developed first, nuclear power generation or nuclear weapons?

	they were developed simultaneously
	nuclear weapons
	nuclear power generation

15 The Manhattan project made

	plutonium and enriched hesparium
	plutonium and enriched uranium
	uranium and enriched plutonium

16 The Atomic Age, published in 1945, predicted ...

	nuclear war
	a world government to prevent nuclear war
	that fossil fuels would go unused
	widespread radiation poisoning

17 In 1953, "Atoms for Peace" was

	a presidential speech warning of the need for nuclear arms agreements
	a congressional committee
	a protest movement centered in US universities
	a presidential speech promoting nuclear energy production

18 The first nuclear power plant to contribute to the grid was situated in

	Russia
	Oak Ridge
	Virginia
	Great Britain

19 According to Wikipedia, the prediction made in 1954 that electricity would someday be "too cheap to meter" was

	an argument that fossil fuels are so abundant that we don't need nuclear energy
	an effort to promote nuclear fission as an energy source
	an effort to promote nuclear fusion as an energy source

20 The third worst nuclear disaster occurred in Russia (1957) and was kept secret for 30 years

	true
	false

21 More US nuclear submarines sank due to nuclear accidents than did Russian submarines

	true
	false

22 The worst nuclear disaster on record occurred in Russia

	true
	false

23 The worldwide number of nuclear reactors and their net capacity grew steadily from 1960, and

	fluctuated randomly but with a strong correlation with the world economy and price of oil
	leveled off between Three Mile Island (1979) and Chernobyl (1986).
	did not begin to level off until Chernobyl (1986)
	briefly fell sharply after Three Mile Island (1979), rose again, and again fell after Chernobyl (1986)