Quiz 4

Question 1

_____ is the fuel of global economy.

Answer 1

Energy

Question 2

_______ is a complex system that starts with extraction from a variety of sources and then moves to ____, _____, _______, and _______.

Answer 2

Energy harnessing network, transformation, storage, distribution, final utilization

Question 3

_______ is the field of activities focused on obtaining sources of energy from natural resources.

Answer 3

Energy development

Question 4

Energy can be classified as _____ and ______ sources.

Answer 4

primary, secondary

Question 5

_____ resources are significantly depleted by human use

Answer 5

Non-renewable

Question 6

_____ resources are produced by ongoing process that can sustain indefinite human exploitation.

Answer 6

Renewable

Question 7

Examples of primary energy resources

Answer 7

Wind, solar, wood fuel, fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.

Question 8

Examples of secondary resources

Answer 8

Electricity, hydrogen, or other synthetic fuels.

Question 9

It is electrical current used as power source

Answer 9

Electricity

Question 10

In September of _____, ______ Faraday made the discovery of ________

Answer 10

1831, Michael, Electromagnetic Induction

Question 11

It is the source of mechanical energy for a rotating electric generator.

Answer 11

Prime mover

Question 11

The sources for prime movers are ____, _____, and ____.

Answer 11

Thermal, hydro, wind

Question 12

It is a mechanical device that is forced to rotate by the pressure of gas

Answer 12

Turbine

Question 13

It is an industrial location that is utilized for the generation and distribution of electric power in mass scale.

Answer 13

Power plant station

Question 14

Nearly all power generating stations has an ______ or _______, which is basically a rotating machine that is equipped to convert energy from the _______ domain into _______ domain by creating _____ between the ________ and the _______

Answer 14

AC alternator, generator, mechanical, electrical, relative motion, magnetic field, conductor

Question 15

3 Major classification of power production

Answer 15

Nuclear, hydro-electric, thermal power generation

Question 16

As per US EIA ______ power plant has the highest capacity factor

Answer 16

nuclear

Question 17

Operation of nuclear plant generates _____ to _____ permanent jobs, which on average pay a ____% higher wage than other jobs.

Answer 17

400,700,36%

Question 18

The power from 1kg of ______ is approximately equivalent to _____ gallons of _____, 1 ton of______ or ______ cubic feet of natural gas

Answer 18

uranium, 126, oil, coal, 17000

Question 19

Nuclear power is ____, ____ and _____

Answer 19

clean, efficient, cheap

Question 20

Only, ____% of the world’s energy is produced by nuclear power plants,

Answer 20

4.4

Question 21

The first ___________ (PWR), started up in 1960 and operated until 1992 in Yankee, Rome

Answer 21

Pressurized Water Reactor

Question 22

In 2017, the top producers of nuclear energy were:

Answer 22

USA, France, China, Russia, S. Korea, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, UK, Sweden

Question 23

Two types of Nuclear Power Plants:

Answer 23

Pressurized Water Reactor and Boiling Water Reactor

Question 24

The present analysis of existing reactor concepts focuses on six key reactor attributes:

Answer 24

cost effectiveness, safety, security and nonproliferation, grid appropriateness, commercialization roadmap, fuel cycle

Question 25

_____ refers to the prototype and power reactors that launched civil nuclear power. This generation consists of early prototype reactors from the 1950s and 1960s.

Answer 25

Generation 1

Question 26

The _____ is a substances which is used as a conductor of heat it absorbs the thermal energy generated through fission

Answer 26

Coolant

Question 27

The ______ is a substance which slows down the speed pf the fission reaction.

Answer 27

Moderator

Question 28

The ______ is responsible for _______ and the ______ is used for the ___________.

Answer 28

coolant, steam generating, moderator, sustainable chain reaction.

Question 29

______ refers to a class of commercial reactors designed to be economical and reliable. Examples: PWR, Canada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU), BWR, Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGR) and Vodo-Vodyanoi Energetichesky Reactors (VVER).

Answer 29

Generation II

Question 30

An array of fuel channels, containing the reactor fuel passes through a large cylindrical vessel called _______ which contains the heavy water moderator and reflector.

Answer 30

Calandria

Question 31

To remove heat from a nuclear reactor, a _____ is used.

Answer 31

Coolant

Question 32

A _________ is a type of light water reactor that uses ordinary water as the _______ and the _______

Answer 32

Pressurized water reactor, moderator, coolant.

Question 33

A major difference between _____ and the ______ is that the latter have _______

Answer 33

PWR, VVER, horizontal steam generators.

Question 34

_____ nuclear reactors essentially Gen II reactors with evolutionary, state-of-the-art, design improvements.

Answer 34

Generation III

Question 35

Gen I and II are both regulated by ____ based on 10 CFR Part _____

Answer 35

NRC regulations, 50

Question 36

Gen III and III+ are regulated by NRC regulated based on 10 CFR Part _____

Answer 36

52

Question 37

Only _____ Gen III reactors, all ____ are in operation today and no Gen III reactors in USA

Answer 37

four, AECL

Question 38

Typical operation life of Gen II and III

Answer 38

40, 60

Question 39

_____ reactor designs are an evolutionary development of Gen III reactors.

Answer 39

Generation III+

Question 40

Examples of gen III+ reactors.

Answer 40

advanced CANDU VVER-1200/392M European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) Economic Simplified Boiling Reactor (ESBWR)

Question 41

_____ implies a system of reactors and nuclear fuel and reprocessing facilities. Considered safer and more efficient. ______ is the first country to operate this generation of reactor. Meanwhile, ______ are purely theoretical

Answer 41

Generation IV, China, Generation V

Question 42

The _____ is an international organization that coordinates the development of generation IV reactors.

Answer 42

Generation IV International Forum (GIF)

Question 43

Six reactor candidates for Gen IV reactors.

Answer 43

Gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR) Lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) Molten salt reactor (MSR) Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) Supercritical-water-cooled reactor (SCWR) Very high-temperature reactor (VHTR)

Question 44

The majority of reactors in operation around the world are ______ generation and ______ generation reactor, as the majority of the ______ generation systems have been retires since 2021.

Answer 44

second, third, first.

Question 45

The ______ has received the greatest share of funding that supports demonstration facilities

Answer 45

Sodium fast reactor

Question 46

The _______ designs operated at much higher temperature prior generations. This allows for _______ or for ______ for the efficient production of hydrogen and the synthesis of __________.

Answer 46

very-high temperature reactor, high temperature electrolysis, sulfur-iodine cycle, carbon-neutral fuels.

Question 47

The ______ is an industrial process involving various steps to produce electricity from uranium in nuclear power reactors.

Answer 47

nuclear fuel cycle

Question 48

If spent fuel is not reprocessed it is referred as _____, on the hand if the fuel is reprocessed it is referred as _______.

Answer 48

Open fuel cycle, close fuel cycle

Question 49

Types of non-conventional energy power generation

Answer 49

solar, sea/ocean, wind, geothermal

Question 50

_______ are a type of solar energy

Answer 50

Solar thermal systems

Question 51

They are called energy of the future

Answer 51

Alternative source of energy

Question 52

With fossil fuel supplies running out, ____ and ____ are now becoming an important energy source

Answer 52

wind energy and wind power

Question 53

______ is a free and renewable secondary form of solar energy.

Answer 53

wind energy

Question 54

The ______ is the movement or motion of substances and objects contained in the wind that can be converted into both _____ and _____ energy by a _______.

Answer 54

kinetic energy, mechanical, electrical, windmill.