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