1. Read this resource from the Office of Nuclear Energy: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/advantages-and-challenges-nuclear-energy
- Summarize the given advantages of building nuclear power plants
- Summarize the given disadvantages of building nuclear power plants
- In your opinion, should California build more nuclear power plants?
2. Access this Rutherford experiment simulation.
- Compare the behavior of the alpha particles with the Rutherford atom vs the plum pudding,
- Compare the behavior of the alpha particles with the Rutherford atom with the maximum protons and neutrons to the minimum protons and neutrons.
- Why was it important that Rutherford used gold foil for his experiment, as opposed to something like aluminum?
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Advantages and Challenges of Nuclear Energy
Source: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/advantages-and-challenges-nuclear-energy
Rutherford Scattering
Source: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/rutherford-scattering/latest/rutherford-scattering_en.html