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1
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_____ is the fuel of global economy.

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Energy

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2
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_______ is a complex system that starts with extraction from a variety of sources and then moves to ____, _____, _______, and _______.

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

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3
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_______ is the field of activities focused on obtaining sources of energy from natural resources.

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Energy development

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4
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Energy can be classified as _____ and ______ sources.

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primary, secondary

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5
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_____ resources are significantly depleted by human use

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Non-renewable

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6
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_____ resources are produced by ongoing process that can sustain indefinite human exploitation.

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Renewable

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7
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Examples of primary energy resources

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

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8
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Examples of secondary resources

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Electricity, hydrogen, or other synthetic fuels.

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9
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It is electrical current used as power source

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Electricity

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10
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In September of _____, ______ Faraday made the discovery of ________

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1831, Michael, Electromagnetic Induction

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11
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It is the source of mechanical energy for a rotating electric generator.

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Prime mover

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11
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The sources for prime movers are ____, _____, and ____.

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Thermal, hydro, wind

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12
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It is a mechanical device that is forced to rotate by the pressure of gas

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Turbine

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13
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It is an industrial location that is utilized for the generation and distribution of electric power in mass scale.

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Power plant station

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14
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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 _______

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

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15
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3 Major classification of power production

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Nuclear, hydro-electric, thermal power generation

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16
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As per US EIA ______ power plant has the highest capacity factor

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nuclear

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17
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Operation of nuclear plant generates _____ to _____ permanent jobs, which on average pay a ____% higher wage than other jobs.

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400,700,36%

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18
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The power from 1kg of ______ is approximately equivalent to _____ gallons of _____, 1 ton of______ or ______ cubic feet of natural gas

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uranium, 126, oil, coal, 17000

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19
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Nuclear power is ____, ____ and _____

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clean, efficient, cheap

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20
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Only, ____% of the world’s energy is produced by nuclear power plants,

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4.4

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21
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The first ___________ (PWR), started up in 1960 and operated until 1992 in Yankee, Rome

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Pressurized Water Reactor

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22
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In 2017, the top producers of nuclear energy were:

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

23
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Two types of Nuclear Power Plants:

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Pressurized Water Reactor and Boiling Water Reactor

24
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The present analysis of existing reactor concepts focuses on six key reactor attributes:

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

25
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_____ refers to the prototype and power reactors that launched civil nuclear power. This generation consists of early prototype reactors from the 1950s and 1960s.

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Generation 1

26
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The _____ is a substances which is used as a conductor of heat it absorbs the thermal energy generated through fission

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Coolant

27
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The ______ is a substance which slows down the speed pf the fission reaction.

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Moderator

28
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The ______ is responsible for _______ and the ______ is used for the ___________.

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coolant, steam generating, moderator, sustainable chain reaction.

29
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______ 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).

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Generation II

30
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An array of fuel channels, containing the reactor fuel passes through a large cylindrical vessel called _______ which contains the heavy water moderator and reflector.

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Calandria

31
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To remove heat from a nuclear reactor, a _____ is used.

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Coolant

32
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A _________ is a type of light water reactor that uses ordinary water as the _______ and the _______

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Pressurized water reactor, moderator, coolant.

33
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A major difference between _____ and the ______ is that the latter have _______

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PWR, VVER, horizontal steam generators.

34
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_____ nuclear reactors essentially Gen II reactors with evolutionary, state-of-the-art, design improvements.

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Generation III

35
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Gen I and II are both regulated by ____ based on 10 CFR Part _____

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NRC regulations, 50

36
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Gen III and III+ are regulated by NRC regulated based on 10 CFR Part _____

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52

37
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Only _____ Gen III reactors, all ____ are in operation today and no Gen III reactors in USA

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four, AECL

38
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Typical operation life of Gen II and III

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40, 60

39
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_____ reactor designs are an evolutionary development of Gen III reactors.

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Generation III+

40
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Examples of gen III+ reactors.

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

41
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_____ 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

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Generation IV, China, Generation V

42
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The _____ is an international organization that coordinates the development of generation IV reactors.

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Generation IV International Forum (GIF)

43
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Six reactor candidates for Gen IV reactors.

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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)

44
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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.

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second, third, first.

45
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The ______ has received the greatest share of funding that supports demonstration facilities

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Sodium fast reactor

46
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The _______ designs operated at much higher temperature prior generations. This allows for _______ or for ______ for the efficient production of hydrogen and the synthesis of __________.

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

47
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The ______ is an industrial process involving various steps to produce electricity from uranium in nuclear power reactors.

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nuclear fuel cycle

48
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If spent fuel is not reprocessed it is referred as _____, on the hand if the fuel is reprocessed it is referred as _______.

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Open fuel cycle, close fuel cycle

49
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Types of non-conventional energy power generation

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solar, sea/ocean, wind, geothermal

50
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_______ are a type of solar energy

A

Solar thermal systems

51
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They are called energy of the future

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Alternative source of energy

52
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With fossil fuel supplies running out, ____ and ____ are now becoming an important energy source

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wind energy and wind power

53
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______ is a free and renewable secondary form of solar energy.

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wind energy

54
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The ______ is the movement or motion of substances and objects contained in the wind that can be converted into both _____ and _____ energy by a _______.

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kinetic energy, mechanical, electrical, windmill.

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