Nuclear Medicine
This supply protects nuclear pharmacists from radioactive syringes
What is a syringe shield?
This time is when a nuclear pharmacist would typically start their shift
What is midnight or earlier?
This is the percentage of U.S. electricity is generated by nuclear power (approx.)
What is about 20%?
This process releases heat in a nuclear power plant
What is nuclear fission?
The Purdue Boilermakers beat this team up north 80-72 to win the B10 Men's Basketball Tournament Championship on March 15, 2026.
What are the Michigan Wolverines?
The main radionuclide used in kit preparation
What is Tc-99m?
This is the primary method a nuclear pharmacy delivers products to hospitals
What are delivery drivers employed by the pharmacy?
This is one medical application of nuclear engineering
What is radiation therapy or medical imaging (PET/SPECT)?
This object spins due to steam in order to generate electricity
What is a turbine?
This building that opened in 1877 and recently underwent a major renovation, is the oldest on Purdue's campus
What is University Hall?
This test is used in drug kit quality control (like in organic chem labs)
What is TLC (Thin Layer Chromatography)?
These 3 are the core concepts of ALARA
What are time, distance, and shielding?
This course offered at Purdue is the first laboratory class that Nuclear Engineers take, where students interact with various sources
What is NUCL205?
This component regulates the rate of the nuclear reaction
What are control rods?
a highly skilled tradesperson who fabricates, installs, maintains, and repairs boilers, tanks, and large pressure vessels that hold liquids and gases.
What is a boilermaker?
This disease was being imaged in the SNP slides
What is cancer?
These are the two main materials used in syringe or vial shields
What are lead and tungsten?
Name 3 careers in nuclear engineering
reactor design engineer, health physicist, nuclear policy analyst, etc.
This type of system removes excess heat from the reactor
What is the cooling system?
Purdue Grand Prix is known as the "greatest spectacle in college racing" and is famously this long (miles or laps accepted)
What is 160 laps or ~50 miles?
List four diseases that can be imaged using nuclear medicine.
pulmonary embolism, Parkinson’s disease, thyroid disease, cancer, epilepsy, etc.
This is the total body annual radiation dose limit for a nuclear pharmacist
What is 50 rem?
This type of reactor is a major goal of modern nuclear engineering research, especially at Purdue as recently as 2023
This building is home to the only nuclear reactor in the state of Indiana and the only digital reactor in the country
What is BHEE?
Games Slayter, is a Purdue Chemist best known for inventing this
What is fiberglass?