Title: Nuclear Self Assessment
Course: 2016FA-MCO-115-401

Please read the questions and possible answers carefully. Provide the best possible answer.

Q: 20% of the energy supplied through the United States power grid comes from nuclear energy.
- True
- False
A: True
If right: Correct!
If wrong: Incorrect. It is true that 20% of the power supplied through the U.S. power grid comes from nuclear energy.

Q: Nuclear energy does not produce the harmful by-product carbon dioxide.
- True
- False
A: True
If right: That is correct.
If wrong: No, nuclear energy production does not cause the by-product carbon dioxide.

Q: Nuclear means of or relating to producing or using energy created when the nuclei of atoms are split apart or joined together.
- True
- False
A: True
If right: Correct.
If wrong: No, that is actually true.

Q: The Department of Energy helps protect Americans from the threat of pollution and nuclear harm while maintaining a stockpile of nuclear weapons used to protect the country.
- True
- False
A: True
If right: Correct.
If wrong: Incorrect. This is true. The DOE does work to protect Americans from nuclear threat and pollution while maintaining a stockpile of nuclear weapons used to protect the country.

Q: The Department of Homeland Security has determined which of these to be critical infrastructure?
- nuclear reactors
- nuclear waste
- nuclear materials
- all of these
A: all of these
If right: Correct.
If wrong: Incorrect. The Department of Homeland Security has determined nuclear reactors, materials, and waste to be one of the 16 sectors of critical infrastructure.

Q: The Department of Homeland Security is the only group that regulates nuclear power in the United States.
- True
- False
A: False
If right: Correct. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is the main regulatory body over nuclear energy.
If wrong: Incorrect. The United States Nuclear Regulartory Commission (NRC) is the regulatory body over nuclear energy.

Q: The chain reaction used to obtain electricity from a nuclear reactor is called fusion.
- True
- False
A: False
If right: Correct. Fission is the method most nuclear reactors use to create electricity. It is a chain reaction.
If wrong: No, that is incorrect. Fission is the method most nuclear reactors use to create electricity. It is a chain reaction.

Q: The main use of nuclear material (material that is not involved in power production or weapons) is in the field of medicine.
- True
- False
A: True
If right: Correct!
If wrong: No, this is not correct. The main use of nuclear material (that material that is not involved in power production or weapons) is in the field of medicine.

Q: The most common way to harness the power of a nuclear reaction is to cause nuclear fission and use the heat energy created from that reaction to create steam.
- True
- False
A: True
If right: Very good, this is correct.
If wrong: Incorrect. This is actually true. Fission is the reaction that is most commonly utilized in creating energy.

Q: The nuclear sector is interdependent with what other sectors?
- Chemical
- Information Technology
- Energy
- All except Information Technology
A: All except Information Technology
If right: Great! That is correct.
If wrong: Incorrect. Information Technology is the only sector listed here that is not direclty interdependent with nuclear.