Nuclear Power Plant Waste The Cold War Quiz

The safe long term storage of nuclear waste is a problem that is reaching crisis point for both the civil nuclear industry and for the military.

Diocese kansas city st joseph. True although permafrost can extend hundreds of feet deep it is only the top section that concerns builders. F belarusians are an ethnic group that share a language and formed an independent country after the breakup of the soviet union. The armaments race resulted in the us and the soviet union together having some 65 000 nuclear warheads.

To take the quiz click on the answer. During the cold war years of the 1950s and 1960s the development of the british atomic bomb was seen as a matter of urgency. Twenty years and more than 12330 shipments later tons of cold war era radioactive waste from decades of bomb making and research have been stashed in the salt caverns that make up the underground facility and not.

For webquest or practice print a copy of this quiz at the physics. Past carelessness about nuclear waste especially in the. During world war ii the soviet union was engaged in political and ideological war with the west particularly the united states which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

File in this april 8 1998 file photo a worker drives a cart through a tunnel inside the waste isolation pilot plant no. Nuclear weapons quiz 3 global challenges for the 21st century 1 the nuclear arms race that began during world war ii then escalated throughout the cold war has left more than 17000 nuclear warheads scattered around the world according to the federation of american scientists. Eastern european countries made up over half of the list of the top twelve countries who produce the largest amount of electricity generated by nuclear power plants.

The circle next to the answer will turn yellow. The nuclear site 200 miles 322km south east of seattle contains about 60 of the nations most dangerous radioactive waste thats stored in 177 ageing underground tanks some of which have. Leaky power plants crumbling waste stores nearing the end of their.

For decades the world was dominated by the cold war. 2 150 feet below the surface near carlsbad nm. Around the same time the army also developed mobile reactors some that could be put on a flatbed and put on a standard air force cargo plane and a ship the sturgis mh 1a a former liberty ship that was stripped of its propellers and turned into a towable nuclear power plant.

You can change your answer if you want. Nuclear waste management and disposal is one of the issues that is in great need of being better explained to the public. The vapor container entrance to the sm 1 reactor system.

Dealing with the problems of old age lies at the heart of the nuclear industrys challenge to convince the public of its safety. Nuclear energy and fission webquest print page.