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=Eric=

=1. How nuclear energy is used to solve energy scarcity?= === **Fossil fuels will run out but nuclear energy can be produced by acquiring uranium and starting the nuclear fissure. The neutron bombards with the mass of uranium and causes a chain reaction of energy and creates heat. the heat makes the water turn to steam and turn the turbines. ** ===

=2.= =a)How is nuclear energy produced?= === **The neutron bombards with the mass of uranium and causes a chain reaction of energy and creates heat. The heat makes the water turn to steam and turn the turbines. ** ===

=b) How is nuclear energy used to generate electricity?= ===**Fossil fuels will run out but nuclear energy can be produced by acquiring uranium and starting the nuclear fissure. The neutron bombards with the mass of uranium and causes a chain reaction of energy and creates heat. the heat makes the water turn to steam and turn the turbines **===

=3. What are the advantages and limitations of nuclear energy?=

**Advantages:**
=== **-Nuclear energy can replace fossil fuels and this is very good because at the rate people are using fossil fuels it will run out and because we are relying on it as a main source of energy people would not be able to power their homes. By using nuclear energy which is renewable and if used right, safe.** ===

**Disadvantages:**
=== **-Although it is a great resource for electricity, the process of nuclear fissur creates nuclear waste which is hard to get rid of and is harmful as it still releases radioactive energy. storing the waste costs valuable space and the space that is used to store the waste can not be used for living.** === === **-Radiation at the power plant is harmful. People that work there must be protected because it may harm cells in the body. The radioactivity lasts for a long time because the chain reaction in really strong.** === ===**- Nuclear power plants are not always stable. Explosions happen when there is too much uranium. the fuel rods sometimes are over fills and the fissure and the chain reaction overflows and the fuel rods break.**===

=4. How does nuclear radiation affect the environment?=
 * === **Nuclear Energy as a source of energy** === ||
 * === Advantages === || === Disadvantages === || === Limitation === ||
 * === **-Nuclear energy can replace fossil fuels and this is very good because at the rate people are using fossil fuels it will run out and because we are relying on it as a main source of energy people would not be able to power their homes. By using nuclear energy which is renewable and if used right, safe.** === || === **-Although it is a great resource for electricity, the process of nuclear fissure creates nuclear waste which is hard to get rid of and is harmful as it still releases radioactive energy. storing the waste costs valuable space and the space that is used to store the waste can not be used for living.** === || === **Entirely depends on the price and availability of uranium.** === ||
 * ===**-Nuclear energy is very efficient when the fissure is successful.**=== || === **-Radiation at the power plant is harmful. People that work there must be protected because it may harm cells in the body. The radioactivity lasts for a long time because the chain reaction in really strong.** === || === **Uranium will run out.** === ||
 * ===**-Chemotherapy can be done with the radiation.**=== || === **- Nuclear power plants are not always stable. Explosions happen when there is too much uranium.** === ||  ||
 * || === **High investment rate.** === ||  ||

**- Nuclear disasters (Such as the Fukushima disaster) Make parts of land unable to be a habitat to humans. Everything in a certain radius will also be contaminated.**
=5. How does nuclear radiation affect health?= ===- R**adioactive elements such as Cesium, will be of greater concern due to their potential for traveling over long distances and becoming concentrated in the tissues of marine life, which could have immeasurable but enormous impacts on marine ecosystems.**=== ===**-** Chemotherapy is performed by using a radioactive isotopes that is not as harmful as others. After getting rid of the harmful cells in the body which is causing the cancer, The isotopes leaves the system and does not circulate.===

=Notes:=

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** - Positively charged protons attract negative charged electrons ** ** - Radioactive poisoning is hypothesized to have something to do with protons and neutrons staying together ** ** - Neutrons are neutral, protons are positively charged ** ** - The flow of electrons creates an electricity flow around the atom. ** ** - All plutonium has 94 protons. ** ** - The same number of protons could be in a different plutonium but the mass number could be different. ** ** - Plutonium - 210 is an isotope of plutonium - 244 ** ** - Plutonium is radioactive because it is too heavy and must have radioactive decay. ** **1-Number of neutron + protons ** ** n ** **0-Number of protons ** **Carbon is frequent within the human body. when a human body dies the carbon dioxide is released. ** **Isotopes: same number of protons but different number of neutrons. ** ======

**<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the mass of uranium is hit with a neutron it causes a chain reaction to create electricity and it breaks apart in a nuclear reaction. The nuclear rod/fuel rod intensely and turns the water into steam. The steam turns turbines and generates electricity. **

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= Vocabulary = - Volume decreases=Pressure Increases - Pressure=force acting on an area. -
 * Vocabulary || Definition ||
 * Enriched || Improve or enhance the value of. ||
 * Fission || A chain reaction bombardment ||
 * Neutron || A neutrally charged particle ||
 * Electron || A negatively charged particle ||
 * Proton || A positively charged particle ||