Grassy Narrows
Nuclear Energy
Rhyme Time
Nuclear Waste
DuPont Teflon
100

What  river was polluted by DRyden Chemical in the 20th century?

What is the Wabigoon or English River?

100

Splitting atoms for energy is called fission like in modern nuclear power plants, but combining atoms to create energy to date can only be used practically for nuclear weapons and is called this.

What is fusion?

100

Something you squish with your foot and Kirra's dog.

What is bug and pug?

100

This more dangerous version of spent nuclear fuel has the acronym HLW which stands for this.

What is High Level Waste?

100

Tephlon was a pervasive chemical put in 10's of thousands of products but best known for use in these: 

What are non-stick cookware or pots and pans?

200

The fish consumed in the Grassy Narrows Community were poisoned by this industry located in Dryden.

What is the pulp and paper industry?

200

Nuclear Plants do have a carbon footprint and primarily in the construction stage because of the large amount of this material required for their construction.

What is concrete?

200

This two-word term is the thing you use for tagging and the other gives your skin an odd orangey hugh.

What is spray can, spray tan?

200

Highly refined nuclear material used for nuclear weapons poses a great risk to human health and survival and is made from this radioactive material.

What is plutonium?

200

This company originally developed C-8 or Tephlon but stopped producing it when their internal studies showed is was a carcinogen.

Who is 3M?

300

Although there has been court battles for financial compensation to community members of Grassy Narrows, this chemical still remains to be cleaned from the water supply in the Wabigoon River.

What is Methyl Mercury?

300

Nuclear has an advantage over use of fossil fuels for electric energy because using nuclear fuel doesn't produce this green house gas.

What is Carbon Dioxide?

300

What is tomato potato?

300

The Finnish repository for long-term nuclear waste storage featured in the film Into Eternity was named this.

What is Onkalo?

300

Because tephlon does not break down by neither natural decomposition, nor bacteria, nor sunlight, nor exposure to air. It is considered to be in this deadly family of chemicals.   

What are bio-persistant chemicals?

400

We did a deep dive on the environmental disaster in Grassy Narrows and featured Chief _________ as an example of someone seeking justice and reparations for his community.

Who is Chief Rudy Turtle?

400

Splitting atoms creates a large amount of this. Noted by the letter E in Einstein's equation E = mc2.

What is Energy?

400

An artificial arm or leg and a particular type of look.

What is prosthetic and aesthetic? 

400

Highly radioactive material used for nuclear weapons poses great risk to human health and survival and is generally made from this.

What is plutonium?

400
C-8 was also sold in products world-wide in order to do this to rain jackets, shoes, umbrellas, tents, and a host of other outdoor products.

What is waterproof?

500

Like the tephlon in the Ohio River valley, the Methyl Mercury in the Wabigoon River has the ability to move up through the food chain and accumulate at the top. A process known as __________________.

What is bioaccumulation?

500

Nuclear fuel creates electrically energy by boiling ______ and creating ______ which turns electric turbines.

What is water and steam?

500

The plant that grows it and the stuff you get fermenting grapes.

What is vine and wine?

500

There are plans to build a nuclear waste storage facility in this Northern Ontario Community West of Thunder Bay.

What is Ignace?

500

Dupont decided to continue to make C-8 (Tephlon) despite knowing it's negative health effects, calling the chemical this, the same name as the film documenting it's disasterous effect on the Ohio River Valley.

What is "The Devil We Know"