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Which of the following elements tend to be radioactive

Ra and Ac

Pu and Th

Am and U

Possible options for spent nuclear fuel rods include

burying them in deep caverns.removing lighter nuclei and reusing them

re-mixing them and putting them back in the mines

Which of the following processes depend on fusion

The atomic bombs used in World War II

The energy production in the sun

(APEX)

One thing that is not a factor in determining critical mass is

the age of the material

The most effective shape for achieving critical mass is a

sphere

The differences between nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs include what

Nuclear reactors produce exactly one additional fission for each fission reaction while nuclear bombs don't

Nuclear bombs are runaway fission reactions and reactors aren't

(APEX)

What is a bond that is an electrostatic attraction between atoms of opposite charges

ionic bond

Elements become radioactive when the repulsive strong nuclear force overcomes the attractive electroactive force

false

The processes of bone scan imagining and radiocarbon dating are what

similar because they both depend on spontaneous radioactive decay.

Which produces the most energy

fusing 10 kg of hydrogen

Strontium decays by beta decay part of the nuclear equation is shown below fill in the blank with a number

39 APEX

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