Nuclear Reactors
The most common nuclear reactor in the United States
What is a PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor)
An alpha particle is essentially a ______
What is a Helium-4 nucleus
The daughter element of Uranium after alpha decay
(sorry for the lack of a periodic table, its a premium feature)
What is Thorium
Wave-particle duality is defined as ______ and the famous _______ experiment proved it true
What is wave-particle duality is when a particle or wave exhibit properties of waves or particles (in respective order). This means that a particle can also act as a wave. The double slit experiment proved this to be true.
The notorious button that played a role in the destruction of Unit 4
What is A35? (AZ5 in English Alphabet)
Cause of MELTDOWNS
What is exposed fuel rods (melting fuel)
What happens during alpha decay?
What is a nucleus releases two protons and two neutron (essentially a Helium-4 nucleus)
The daughter element of Cesium after beta-minus decay
What is Barium?
A neutron is a ____
What is a neutrally charged nucleon, slightly heavier than a proton!
This element built up in the Unit 4 reactor, causing it to stall
What is Xenon?
The element most commonly used as a neutron absorber
What is Boron
What happens during beta-minus decay?
What is a neutron becomes a proton and releases an electron and an anti-neutrino
The daughter element of Radium after alpha decay
What is Radon
In Einstein's famous equation, E=mc^2, E means _____, m means ____, and c^2 means _____. The equation itself represents _____.
Unit 4 at the Chernobyl Power Plant was this kind of reactor
What is an RBMK reactor (Reaktor Bolshoy Moschnosti Kanalnyy, which roughly translates to High-Power Channel-Type Reactor)
Term referring to bubbles in reactor coolant
What is void
What happens during beta-plus decay?
What is a proton becomes a neutron and releases a positron and a neutrino (specially an electron flavor neutrino)
The daughter element of Plutonium after alpha decay
What is Uranium?
An anti-particle is defined as ______
What is the opposite of its respective particle. For example, the anti-particle of an electron (negative charge) is a positron (positive charge, not to be mistaken with a proton).
The control rods in Unit 4 were tipped with this material
(HINT: Its in your pencils)
What is Graphite (a neutron moderator)
What is neutron flux?
What is the neutron radiation intensity, or the amount of neutrons passing through an area through a certain time (measured in units of neutron per square centimeter per second, n/cm^2/s).
What happens during two neutrino double electron capture?
What is two electrons are captured and absorbed by two protons in the nucleus, turning them into neutrons and releasing two neutrinos.
The daughter NUCLEUS of Xenon-124 after two neutrino double electron capture decay
What is Tellurium-124
A quark is _______
What is a fundamental subatomic particle that makes up other particles (if not fundamental). For example, protons have 2 up quarks and 1 down quark (uud) and neutrons have 1 up quark and 2 down quarks (udd). They come in flavors, similar to neutrinos.
3.6 roentgen
What is
Not great, not terrible.