Victims of the Chernobyl accident still struggle with this emotional and mental disease
What is depression
100
This is designed to keep radioactive materials from escaping into the environment in case of internal explosions or core meltdown within the reactor
What is containment vessel
100
This nuclear disaster occured in the United States in 1979 and has been the only major nuclear disaster to occur on the continent of North America
What is Three Mile Island
100
How many countries have been known for selling nuclear reactors and uranium enrichment technology
What is 15
200
What year did the Chernobyl accident take place?
What is 1986
200
A common ailment with children under the age of 5 that experienced radiation and showed up in adults usually 5 to 7 years after experiencing radiation
What is thyroid cancer
200
These produce 85% of the world's nuclear-generated electricity
What are light-water reactors
200
Until 2011 this nuclear disaster ranked the highest on the international nuclear event scale
What is Chernobyl
200
What percentage of all countries have nuclear weapons or the ability to build them
What is 1/3
300
The accident released 100 times more radiation into the air than what?
What is the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
300
This birth defect is when a baby has an extra chromosome at the 21 mark
What is down syndrome
300
This includes the mining of uranium, processing and enriching the uranium to make a satisfactory fuel, using it in a reactor, and safely storing the resulting highly radioactive wastes for thousands of years
What is the nuclear fuel cycle
300
This nuclear power plant disaster is the earliest recorded disaster happening in 1957
What is Kyshtym
300
What percent of United States citizens are at risk of being exposed to radiation because of spent-fuel storage sites that lack security
What is 54%
400
Which reactor exploded?
What is reactor number four
400
This involves having any irregularity or abnormality distribution, number, structure, or arrangement of chromosomes
What is chromosomal aberrations
400
Consisting mainly of spent fuel rods from commercial nuclear power plants and assorted wastes from the production of nuclear weapons, and must be stored safely for 10,000 to 240,000 years
What are high-level radioactive wastes
400
This disaster occured in 2011 and has risen from a 4 to a 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale
What is Fukushima
400
This country has experienced high threats of nuclear radiation due to there large stock pile of nuclear materials
What is Pakistan
500
How many people had to leave their homes do to contamination by radioactive fallout?
What is 350,000
500
This birth defect was found in babies whose mothers had been exposed to radiation causing them to lack folic acid
What is neural tube defect
500
These generate more nuclear fuel than they consume by converting nonfissionable uranium-238 into fissionable plutonium-239
What is breeder nuclear fission reactors
500
Name one of the two nuclear power plant disasters that occured in 2005 and were ranked a 2 and a 3 on the International Nuclear Event Scale
What is Sellafield and Atucha
500
Each year many thousands of pounds of this are transferred from one nuclear power plant to another and experience dangers of robbery while being transfered from power plants and can be used to make 'dirty bombs'