Biomedicine
Aerospace
Facts and stats
100

What machine is responsible for taking pictures of your bones?

X-ray

100

The organization that runs the US space program

NASA

100

How many hours a day do nuclear energy plants run every day?

24

200

What medical machine is responsible for looking inside your brain and body, usually used to check for cancer?

MRI

200

NASA uses nuclear energy because it lasts very long, unlike ___ which require sunlight

Solar panels

200

Roughly 1/x homes get their electricity from nuclear energy. What is X?

5

300

A type of doctor who treats cancer, often using radiation

oncologist

300

RTG used in space doesn't use uranium like reactors; they use another element, which element is it?

Plutonium

300

A gummy bear-sized uranium pellet has as much energy as how many tons of coal?

1

400

Why are MRIs so magnetic?

They align your protons, which causes attraction

400

What is the name of the stellar body in our solar system that is considered a natural nuclear reactor?

The sun

400

Worldwide, nuclear energy avoids about 2 billion tons of this greenhouse gas every year. What gas is it?

CO2

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