Nuclear Waste

1) This policy intended to establish energy policies for the United States for years to come:

A) Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

B) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

C) Energy Policy Act of 2005.

D) None of the above

2) How much oil can primary recovery remove in an oil field?

A) 50%

B) 18%

C) 25%

D) 67%

3) At present, the total number of long-term, commercial, below-ground nuclear waste

depository sites in use in the United States is:

A) 0.

B) 7.

C) 23.

D) over 100.

4) One of the major problems associated with long-term, high-level nuclear waste storage is:

A) selecting an environment that will remain stable for more than 10,000 years.

B) determining a cost-effective way to shoot waste into space.

C) figuring out how to contain the material so that it does not leak into the ocean.

D) creating a secure environment to protect the material from terrorists.

5) Yucca Mountain in the state of Nevada is:

A) the location of a leaky nuclear power plant that will cost billions of dollars to clean up.

B) the only potential site for long-term commercial nuclear waste storage in the United

States, rejected for safety concerns in 2009.

C) a military base that has accumulated low-level and high-level nuclear waste for many

decades.

D) the site of a lake that received illegal dumping of nuclear waste in the 1960s.