October 2005 NUCLEUS , NUCLEAR ENERGY Name_________________________

Give each site a rating from 1 to 10 (10 is the best rating). All of the links are available in our Blackboard course page.

NUCLEUS These links are in the Nucleus folder on our Blackboard web sites page.

_____ 1. http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/

Click on the approximate position of the nuclide of interest.  After you do this a portion of the table of nuclides will be displayed.  If the desired isotope is not displayed enter the nuclide notation, e.g. c14 in the text box at the top left of the window. What is the energy of the beta particle that is ejected when C14 decays?

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_____ 2. http://www.aip.org/history/curie/resbr1.htm

The history of the early work of Marie Curie. When did her research reveal that thorium compounds, like those of uranium, emit Becquerel rays?

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_____ 3. http://radiation.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/radiation.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php and http://www.atomicinsights.com/mar96/Opposers.html Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste site. Read the material. Are you for or against the use of Yucca mountain for long term storage of nuclear waste? ___________ Briefly, give some reasons for your answer.

NUCLEAR POWER These links are in the Nuclear Power folder.

____ 4. http://www.insc.anl.gov/

Click on the Maps button in the upper part of the window. Click on the World. Where are most nuclear power plants located (regions of the world or continents) ?

____ 5. http://www.nucleartourist.com/ Scroll down the navigation window on the left side. Select Inside the Nuclear Power Plant. Select one item at a time and read about nuclear power plants. The containment building is designed to sustain pressures of about ______ pounds per square inch.

_____ 6. http://kd4dcy.net/tmi/ Inside TMI: minute by minute Click on the links in the left navigation window. This gives a very good, detailed, description of the accident. Part One: On March _____ 1979, Three Mile Island unit 2 was operating normally and under fully automatic control. As the overnight shift took over at 11 PM, the plant was on the grid and generating power at ____% of its rated 1,000 MegaWatt capacity.

Write a one-paragraph summary of one magazine article or Internet document which discusses one of the following topics: Discovery of the Neutron, nuclear models, Strong Nuclear Force, nuclear reactions, nuclear energy, nuclear waste, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, supernova. No two (or three or four etc.) people will write a summary of the same article. Give the title of the article, name of magazine, month, year and page number OR the URL for the article. No two students can use the same magazine reference or URL.