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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long were the steel columns of the World Trade Center designed to maintain their strength during an ordinary fire?

2. How many people might be killed by a blast in the center of the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day?

3. How many watts per square food does overhead sunlight approximately deliver to the ground?

4. In the Manhattan Project, how much uranium did scientists believe was needed for a critical mass?

5. How much of a half-life does carbon-14 have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does radioactivity go away?

2. What happened to anthrax that was grown in Soviet laboratories, and what threat could it still pose?

3. What are hydrogen bombs and their power?

4. What was the Davy Crockett weapon?

5. What caused most of the death and damage from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs?

6. What are some things that are and are not radioactive?

7. How does food compare in energy to gasoline and to TNT?

8. Under what circumstances might a sophisticated group of terrorists make a weapon in the kiloton range?

9. What is radioactivity and radiation?

10. Why does the author believe solar power is not practical for automobiles?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conservation is using energy efficiently. How are refrigerators an example of energy conservation? Why is conservation the most important and least expensive way to keep carbon dioxide at reasonable levels?

Essay Topic 2

Space exploration can be manned or unmanned. What are the dangers of space exploration for astronauts? How can unmanned expeditions provide as much or more information than a manned flight? Why would it be safer to stop sending astronauts into space and use robots or computers?

Essay Topic 3

In 1979, a nuclear reactor ran out of control and a third of its uranium fuel melted. What happened during the incident at Three Mile Island? How much radiation was released by the accident? How was the perception of the accident worse than its reality?

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