Uranium Crossword
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2. Storage facility for spent nuclear fuel
1. Can’t make more uranium; it’s _____
3. Smallest units of elements
2. Part of a power plant where fission takes place
6. Spent fuel will lose this over time
4. Center of a reactor
7. A _____ reaction keeps going on its own once started
5. Splitting of nuclei of atoms
8. Combining nuclei of atoms
9. Energy stored in nuclei of atoms
12. Metallic element used in nuclear power plants
10. Containers for uranium pellets
14. Product of nuclear power plants
11. Where a nuclear power plant stores its radioactive waste 13. Fission produces this form of energy
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