The most widespread peaceful use for nuclear technology today
What is power production?
Sterilization, pest control, and life extension are all uses for nuclear technology in this field
What is the food industry?
This machine, used in research in medicine, makes particles go fast
What is a particle accelerator?
PUR-1 has this many power channels
What is 4?
Alpha radiation is made up of these particles
What is helium?
This is sterilized with radiation before it goes on your face
What is makeup?
This space probe operates on nuclear power
What is Voyager (other answers valid)
This percentage of the US power grid is nuclear
What is 18.9%?
Our regulating rod is made from this material
What is stainless steel?
MCA stands for this
What is Multichannel Analyzer?
This isotope is used in smoke detectors
What is americium-241?
PET in PET scan stands for this
What is Positron Emission Tomography?
Space probes are often powered by this isotope
What is Pu-238%?
Our Pu-Be source produces this much radiation, in curies
What is 5?
What is lead?
This technique shoots a targeted gamma ray beam into the brain
What is a gamma knife
Nuclear fuel is roughly this many times cheaper per kWh than fossil fuel
What is four?
This $28 billion dollar company is working with Purdue to develop SMRs
What is Duke Energy?
PUR-1 first operated in this year
What is 1962?
This dose of radiation is almost always considered lethal
What is 1000 rem/10 Sv?
Exit signs can glow this long with the help of tritium
What is 10 years?
This isotope is used in carbon dating
What is carbon-14?
There are this many operational nuclear power reactors worldwide
What is 440?
The manual for irradiating a live rat came from this decade
What is the 1970s?
Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henry Becquerel shared the nobel prize for discovering radiation in this year.
What is 1903?