Fission Reactors
The control rods for a BWR are inserted at this location.
The bottom
These are the two main types fusion reactors.
ICF and MCF
This powerhouse scientist discovered two elements, won two Nobel prizes, and coined the term "radioactivity".
Marie Curie-Slodowska
This isotope is used in around 80% of all nuclear medicine procedures.
Technetium-99m
This material blocks alpha, beta, and gamma radiation.
Lead
This distinctive blue glow in water-filled nuclear reactor cores is produced when charged particles travel faster than the speed of light within that medium.
Cherenkov radiation
This reactor is planned after the projected success of ITER.
DEMO
This scientist found the theoretical explanation for fission and discovered the Auger-effect, though she is often left out of the name.
Lise Meitner
This scan is used to visualize metabolic activity in tissues and organs.
PET (positron emission tomography)
This element develops "fuzz" under helium plasma irradiation.
Tungsten
This country has the highest percentage of nuclear energy in its electricity mix.
France
The National Ignition Facility has gotten this amount of energy out from its setup.
8.6 MJ
This nuclear chemist confirmed the existence of Seaborgium and analyzed many transuranic elements.
Darleane Hoffman
Lee Bernstein produces this medical isotope for fighting cancer
Actinium-225
displacements per atom
This reactor was the first fission reactor to produce electricity.
The Experimental Breeder Reactor-I (EBR-I) (in Idaho was the first to produce electricity via fission on Dec. 20, 1951)
This is the magnitude of the magnetic fields in ITER needed to confine plasma.
13 Tesla
This scientists disproved conservation of parity, a question still left unknown to this day, and was an influential researcher in the Manhattan Project.
Chien-Shung Wu
This type of radiotherapy that uses a small source through a cathether to kill a tumor
brachytherapy
This low temperature superconductor is being used in ITER's design.
Niobium Tin or Niobium Titanium
This material was used as the moderator in the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1.
Graphite
These two Russian scientists developed the first tokamak.
Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov
This scientist developed the nuclear shell model.
Maria Geoppert Mayer
Nuclear medicine is used for this organ most frequently.
Heart
The National Ignition Facility uses this material for amplifying laser light.
Neodymium-doped phosphate glass