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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 most effective shape for achieving critical mass is a
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
Elements become radioactive when the repulsive strong nuclear force overcomes the attractive electroactive force
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
Strontium decays by beta decay part of the nuclear equation is shown below fill in the blank with a number