Nuclear Energy

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  1. 3. Can cause death if exposed for a long period of time.
  2. 4. One way nuclear energy is transported.
  3. 5. Why do people use nuclear energy?
  4. 9. Nuclear weapon that can create toxic levels of radiation.
  5. 11. Example of nuclear fusion
  6. 12. Energy can be harvested using this resource.
  7. 13. When atoms are fused or combined together to create energy.
  8. 15. Is it renewable/nonrenewable?
  9. 16. nuclear energy has a ______ fuel supply.
  10. 18. Generates heat to produce steam, which is used by a turbine generator to generate electricity.
  11. 19. Major nuclear accident
  12. 21. Nuclear energy is considered a ______ source of energy.
  13. 23. Another con to using nuclear energy.
  14. 25. Sustainable/Nonsustainable
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  1. 1. Way of mining uranium
  2. 2. A con to using nuclear energy is that it produces radioactive ______.
  3. 6. Created when the nucleus of an atom breaks apart.
  4. 7. What can nuclear energy be used to make?
  5. 8. mining of uranium is environmentally ______.
  6. 9. Inside the reactor, the nucleus of the atom is forced _____, creating nuclear energy.
  7. 10. Cobalt-60, used by hospitals to sanitize equipment like implants, catheters and scalpels is a type of nuclear ______.
  8. 14. Nuclear energy can ______ emissions.
  9. 17. The energy created heats water to spin _______.
  10. 20. nuclear energy has _____ energy density.
  11. 22. Top producer of nuclear energy
  12. 24. Used to spin turbines