First in your book read back over pgs 74-80 "Energy sources for today"
Do not continue until you have done the reading. Ok it’s alright to continue but do not sign below until you have read it.
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URL www.ems.psu.edu/~radovic/fossil_fuels.html
1. 90%
of the
2. Diagram – What % came from domestic oil? From nuclear power?
3. Diagram - Transportation uses up what %?
4. What is the relationship between oil, coal and natural gas? One gallon of oil is equivalent to about
________________ lb. of coal and about ____________ cubic feet of natural gas.
5. 1/4th of an inch by ½ of an inch of a pellet of uranium is equivalent to how much in relation to coal and oil?
6. In 1994 (when this was written) what was the cost differences between natural gas, coal and petroleum?
7. What is deceiving about the price of petroleum?
Go back up to the top and click on coal in the first sentence.
8. What is coal?
9. Typical bituminous coal is made up of what % of elements?
10. Why is the heating value of “low rank” coals low?
11. What is the problem of “high rank” coals?
Click on identified coal resources in the
12. How much total coal does AZ have?
13. In relation to the other listed states how does this compare?
What state listed has the least?
Click on Back. Click on Back again. Click on oil in the first sentence.
14. What is petroleum?
15. What % of petroleum is carbon?
16. How much does a
typical oil well in the
17. How
does the
18. About what % has the middle east left of oil reserves (in relation to what it has already produced) see the chart on billion of barrels
19. What
5 states in the
Which 2 states have the most?
20. In what year did we begin to use more oil than we produced?
21. In 1998 what 2 large oil companies merged?
Click on Back and then click on natural gas
22. What is good about natural gas?
23. What part of the world has the greatest reserve of natural gas?
24. If
the current consumption trend continues how long will the
25. What does this author imply about the cost of natural gas today?
Go to www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/nuclear-faq.html. (notice it is www- not www.) Stanford was one of the 1st universities to be using the net and they have a "special address".
26. Nuclear power has _____________________ times more power than carbon based coal.
27. Scroll
down to #4. How many nuclear power
plants are in the
Go to www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/
On the right side click on FAQ
28. The basic fuel of a nuclear reactor is what?
29. Where does this fuel come from?
30. How is the heat released in the splitting of the atom used in the plant?
31. Scroll
down to the 6th question.
What is the policy in the
32. Scroll all the way down to the question on How significant was the decision by this country to not go the recycling route? . Read this and then the next question and answer and write out why recycling makes the issue of waste so much worse.
33. Click
on back and then on the left click on
34. The accident was a result of a fatal combination of ____________________ and _________________.
35. Read through the next paragraphs and write a short description of what happened to bring about the meltdown.
Go to http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/eternity/vitri1.html
36. Background
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37. How big are the steel containers?
38. Click on steps 1-4. In the process what is the ratio of waste to glass?
39. Click on next illustration. How is the lid closed?
40. Click on next illustration. How many canisters can be kept in the store and for how long?
41. Click on Back to the beginning and then click on the right on “Read” under “The Plan”. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and write out what are still 3 problems (“bedeviling problems”) even if this process is used.
As of now in the
Go to URL www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ This web site is about the storage facility planned for nuclear waste.
Go to Yucca Mountain Repository on the left and click on About the Project (on the left).
a. How far from Las Vegas is it?
b. How high up is it and what is the climate?
c. On the left click on “Why was Yucca Mountain chosen”. Give 2 points listed for why they chose Yucca Mountain.
Go to http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/newsroom/photos/photos_natlmap.shtml.
d. This map shows you where in the U.S. waste is stored. How many storage sites does Arizona have?
e. Name one state that does not have any?
Go to http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/newsroom/photos/photos_maps.shtml#skiptop.
f.
Click on the 4th picture down. What Air force Range is
49. Scroll down to the bottom and click on graphics. Now scroll down and click on Aerial View of Yucca Mountain and click on this picture to enlarge it. You can see the entrance in the bottom left. No question here just a view.
Well there you are I hope you have enjoyed our little tour
of