Women in Nuclear
The woman to discover radioactivity in Uranium and Radium. Hint: A radioactive unit of measurement was named after her.
Who is Marie Curie?
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 146,300 followers on TikTok under the account name @nuclearsciencelover
Who is Dr. Hayes?
The most dangerous accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.
What is 3 Mile Island?
The year that Miss America was a nuclear engineer.
What is 2023?
This historical reactor was built underneath the stands of a football stadium
What is Chicago Pile 1?
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 woman who discovered that radioactive elements can be artificially created from stable elements.
Who is Irene Curie?
This reactor is the most recent in the US to reach initial criticality
What is Vogtle 3?
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 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 woman responsible for discovering nuclear fission and the element protactinium
Who is Lise Meitner?
The year Uranium-235 was discovered.
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?
The North Carolina city near the site of A B-52 crash that dropped its nuclear payload in January 1961
What is Goldsboro?
The only woman to work on the Chicago Pile
Who is Leona Woods?
What company designed the first commercial nuclear reactor?
What is Westinghouse?
Five countries recognized as nuclear weapons states by the NPT
What is China, France, Russia (formerly Soviet Union), UK, and USA?
The 2 newest faculty members to join the nuclear engineering department as of August 2023.
Who are Dr. Alsmadi and Dr. Jiang?
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?