Regents Chemistry Test Preparation Practice

    Nuclear Energy

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    Base your answers to questions 15 on the information below and on your knowledge of chemistry.

    A breeder reactor is one type of nuclear reactor. In a breeder reactor, uranium-238 is transformed in a series of nuclear reactions into plutonium-239.

    The plutonium-239 can undergo fission as shown in the equation below. The X represents a missing product in the equation.

    identification-of-element fig: chem12015-exam_g21.png

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