Demon Core >:)
The common household tool used to separate the hemispheres that slipped, resulting in the second incident
What is a screwdriver?
What was the name given to the project for the development of nuclear weapons in the US?
What is the Manhattan project?
This country has the largest number of nuclear reactors in operation
What is the United States?
The professor with 138,000 followers on TikTok under the account name @nuclearsciencelover
Who is Dr. Hayes?
The name of the reactor considered America's first nuclear accident where one man was pinned to the ceiling by a shield plug
What is SL-1?
The number of people that died as a result of experimentation with the demon core
What is two?
This reactor is the most recent in the US to reach initial criticality
What is Vogtle 3?
This country temporarily shut down all of its reactors for regulatory review and inspection immediately following a 2011 accident
What is Japan?
This professor is also the head of the Nuclear Reactor Program
Who is Dr. Hawari?
Coral reef of 23 islands where residents were forcibly relocated in 1946 by the U.S. government for nuclear weapons testing
What is Bikini Atoll?
The metaphor used by Richard Feynman when describing how the experiments were conducted, now a metaphor for risking serious consequences from unnecessary actions
What is "tickling the dragon's tail"?
This historical reactor was built underneath the stands of a football stadium
What is Chicago Pile 1?
Country that delayed its plan to phase out nuclear power by 2022 due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
What is Germany?
This professor is also a manager of engineering at GE-Hitachi in Wilmington, NC
Who is Dr. Zino?
The North Carolina city near the site of A B-52 crash that dropped its nuclear payload in January 1961
What is Goldsboro?
The name of the illness that caused the deaths of the physicists exposed to radiation from the criticality accidents
What is acute radiation syndrome (ARS)?
What company designed the first commercial nuclear reactor?
What is Westinghouse?
The only African country to have nuclear power
What is South Africa?
This recently retired professor, now professor emeritus, is the former director of the nuclear engineering undergraduate program
Who is Dr. Doster?
Country where the Goiania accident occurred, where an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital, killing 4 people and contaminating hundreds more
What is Brazil?
The alloy that the demon core was made out of
What is plutonium-gallium alloy?
Name of first nuclear-powered submarine
What is the USS Nautilus?
Five countries recognized as nuclear weapons states by the NPT
What is China, France, Russia (formerly Soviet Union), UK, and USA?
This professor is one of the most recent to join the department, becoming the fourth current tenured/tenure track female professor in the department
Who is Dr. Kautz?
Name of the man kept alive for 83 days after receiving 1700 rem in the Tokaimura nuclear accident in 1999
Hisashi Ouchi