Nuclear Power

Your Task

Produce one of the following:

  • A PowerPoint of one or two slides suitable for printing in colour for a wall display

  • A webpage using Frontpage 2000; easier than you might think. Ask if you need help

  • A Hot Potato quiz or test. Hot Potatoes is software that enables you to write multi choice tests, cloze tests, matching pairs tests, quizzes and crosswords. You can find the software by choosing 'Science' on the RM Topic Selector. Hot Potatoes should then appear on your desktop

  • See some examples of other students' work

 What Topic or Theme?

Choose one of these:

  • Nuclear Fission.

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  • Nuclear Power stations

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  • Environmental Issues

Information from Greenpeace 
Info from the Nuclear Industry

 Keyfacts

For GCSE you need to know:

  • fission releases very large amounts of energy

  • fission involves the breakdown of large atomic nuclei to produce smaller ones

  • fission releases neutrons

  • absorption of neutrons can cause fission, and so may cause a chain reaction

  • chain reactions can be controlled using substances which absorb neutrons