Scientist
This woman, alongside her husband, discovered radioactive elements like polonium.
What is Marie Curie?
The year of the Chernobyl incident.
What is 1986?
The three kinds of radioactive decay.
What is alpha, beta, and gamma?
What is true?
What is nuclear fusion?
This scientist received the highest score in they doctoral program, yet when it came to their help in discovering nuclear fission, they were not credited for their work
What is Lisa Meitner?
The year of the Fukushima meltdown.
What is 2011?
Another name for nuclear energy.
What is atomic energy?
The splitting of a heavy atom's nucleus to form a single heavier nucleus.
What is nuclear fission?
This person discovered nuclear energy by accident.
What is Henri Becquerel?
This meltdown occurred due to a steam explosion.
What is the Chernobyl Meltdown?
This form of radiation is often used in specific medical treatments.
(For an extra point, name the specific treatment.)
What is Gamma?
EC: Gamma Knife
This device is used to detect ionizing radiation.
What is a Geiger counter?
This method determines the age of things derived from organic origins by measuring the radioactivity of a specific element within.
What is carbon dating?
The Father of Thermodynamics
This meltdown will take at least 100,000 years to recover before the land is habitable again.
What is Chernobyl?
This decay releases 1 electron or 1 positron.
The amount of nuclear chain reaction that can occur in one second.
What is billions?
What is one of the following:
1. All mttr made of tiny prtcles in const rand motiion.
2. Prtcl speed drtly corresp to their temp.
3. At given temp, tot KE of colliding prtcls remain const.