Second hour exam

1. Second hour exam TEST REVIEW http://life.uiuc.edu/animalbiology/105/ ID: eee105 Password: prAIRie Friday Mar 8 noon here 100 points (of 500 for semester) 29 questions 57 bubbles Wed. Mar 6 5-7pm 141 Wohlers Conflict Exam If University-approved conflict Sign up with Karin Nelson by Wednesday’s lecture

2. Guaranteed Midterm 90 A 87 A 80 B 80 B 70 C 56 C 60 D 49 D E E Grade Cutoffs

3. EEE 105 Nuclear Energy Read Chpt. 11 http://www.life.uiuc.edu/animalbiology/105/ Name: eee105 Password: prAIRie

4. fast neutrons Nuclear Breeder Reactors

5. Plutonium • Extremely toxic , 0.5 µg permitted dose • Constitutent of nuclear weapons • 111 metric tons produced in US 1944-1994 • Plutonium effects on humans secretly tested

6. Plutonium

7. Pebble Bed Modular Reactor • Uranium pellets encased in ceramic • Enclosed in a graphite sphere

8. Pebble Bed Modular Reactor • Fission products confined in sphere

9. Core melt “impossible” Costs ~ natural gas South Africa 2002 (?) No containment (?) Pebble Bed Modular Reactor • Pebbles heat helium

10. Pebble Bed Modular Reactor

11. Nuclear Fusion Nuclear Fusion

12. Nuclear Fusion efficient 1 oz. = 70,000 gal. of gasoline. but 40 years & $10billion of research and still not feasible

13. Nuclear Fusion How to confine high temperature plasma

14. Nuclear Energy Nuclear fuel cycle mining & milling enrichment Separating U235 from U238

15. Hard metal Used as armor Depleted Uranium • Uranium 238 waste from enrichment = DU , 17 X as dense as lead and as armor piercing shells

16. Depleted Uranium • DU ammunition used in Gulf war • US fired 31,000 DU rounds in Kosovo in 1999 • Is DU responsible for Gulf War Syndrome and the more recent Balkan Syndrome?

17. Depleted Uranium vaporizing into tiny • DU burns uranium dioxide pellets persists for years • If inhaled emitting a & b radiation • Now plutonium contamination found in DU

18. Depleted Uranium

19. Nuclear Energy Nuclear fuel cycle mining & milling enrichment fabrication reprocessing waste

20. Nuclear Waste

21. The accumulation of nuclear wastes High-level radioactive wastes has blocked expansion of nuclear power

22. As of 1998., IL power plants had the largest nuclear dump in the world …..5200 metric tons High-level radioactive wastes

23. 3 square miles 1,000 feet deep Nuclear Energy Yucca Flats storage site

24. 3 square miles 1,000 feet deep Nuclear Energy Yucca Flats proposed storage site Would hold 70,000 metric tons for 10,000 years but already this much waste

25. Nuclear Energy Yucca Flats proposed storage site

26. Nuclear Energy Yucca Flats storage site Transport of radioactive wastes

27. Proposed Nuclear Waste Disposal Routes

28. World-wide Nuclear Wastes a hidden hazard a terrorist goal

30. The Doomsday Clock

32. Nuclear Energy 110 commercial reactors in U.S. 50% IL energy is nuclear 434 reactors world-wide

33. Nuclear Energy U.S. produces most nuclear energy

34. France has committed its energy future to nuclear power Nuclear Energy

35. Nuclear Energy Clinton Power Station

36. NRC Clinton Special Evaluation Team Report Mr. Larry Haab Chief Executive Officer Illinois Power Company 550 S. 27th Street Decatur, IL 62717 Dear Mr. Haab: This letter forwards the Special Evaluation Team (SET) report for the Clinton Power Station (CPS). The decline in performance of CPS became apparent to the NRC in September 1996. This trend was documented in a letter to you dated January 27, 1997. At the June 1997 Senior Management Meeting, the NRC decided that CPS should remain on the list of plants with a declining performance trend and that a

37. The ISA, conducted from August through October 1997, identified significant weaknesses in operations, engineering, maintenance, and plant support. Examples of these weaknesses occurred in conduct of operations, management and supervision of operations, performance of system engineers, control and understanding of the design bases, maintenance work scheduling and work processes, and radiation protection. In addition, the ISA identified a number of weaknesses in the barriers to prevent safety problems that are not typical of facilities with a strong nuclear safety culture. These weak barriers were found at all levels of management associated with CPS and were

38. Nuclear Energy December 16, 1999 Illinois Power sells nuclear plant Decatur, Ill.-based Illinois Power has sold its Clinton, Ill., nuclear power plant to AmerGen, a joint venture between PECO Energy Co., of Philadelphia, and British Energy, of Edinburgh, Scotland, for $20 million. Illinois Power said it will purchase at least 75 percent of the Clinton plant's electricity output through 2004.

39. Nuclear Energy Anti-nuclear protests , ‘60’s & ‘70’s

40. Nuclear Energy Anti-nuclear protests , ‘60’s & ‘70’s The China Syndrome Three Mile Island

41. Nuclear Energy 25 April 1986 Chernobyl

42. Chernobyl

43. Nuclear Energy 25 April 1986 Chernobyl

44. Nuclear Energy