Human Health
DNA damage from radiation increase the risk of this disease
What is cancer
Cause of the Fukushima disaster
What is Tsunami (or earthquake)
Fuel commonly used in nuclear reactors
What is Uranium
The maximum age carbon dating is 5,000 years or 50,000 years
50,000 years
The sub atomic particle that give the atomic number
What is protons
Which has higher exposure: chest X-ray or CT scan?
What is CT scan
Country of the Chernobyl disaster
What is the Ukraine
Substance used to to cool nuclear reactors
What is water
What isotope is used in carbon dating
Carbon-14
This subatomic particle differs between isotopes of the same element
What are neutrons
The unit used to measure radiation dose in the body?
What is Sievert
What system failed at Fukushima
What is cooling system
The product produced from a nuclear power plant
What is electricity
This term describes the time it takes for half of a radioactive substance to decay
What is half life
Atom with same atomic number but different atomic weight
What are isotopes
Name of the biggest source of radiation we recieve daily
What number reactor exploded in the Chernobyl disaster?
What is reactor 4
The element along with heat created in nuclear fusion
What is Helium
Carbon dating cannot be used on these because they were never alive.
What is rocks
This term describes isotopes that are unstable and emit radiation
What is a radioactive isotope
Why are alpha particles less dangerous when exposeds to externally?
Can't penetrate the skin
Which US accident occurred in 1979?
The state of matter used in fusion generators
What is plasma
Only types of materials that can be carbon dated
What is organic (living)
This type of isotope is commonly used in medicine to diagnose diseases
What is radioisotope (or radioactive isotope)