Peaceful Uses 1
Peaceful Uses 2
Peaceful Uses 3
PUR-1
Miscellaneous
100

The most widespread peaceful use for nuclear technology today

What is power production?

100

Sterilization, pest control, and life extension are all uses for nuclear technology in this field

What is the food industry?

100

This machine, used in research in medicine, makes particles go fast

What is a particle accelerator?

100

PUR-1 has this many power channels

What is 4?

100

Alpha radiation is made up of these particles

What is helium?

200

This is sterilized with radiation before it goes on your face

What is makeup?

200

This space probe operates on nuclear power

What is Voyager (other answers valid)

200

This percentage of the US power grid is nuclear

What is 18.9%?

200

Our regulating rod is made from this material

What is stainless steel?

200

MCA stands for this

What is Multichannel Analyzer?

300

This isotope is used in smoke detectors

What is americium-241?

300

PET in PET scan stands for this

What is Positron Emission Tomography?

300

Space probes are often powered by this isotope

What is Pu-238%?

300

Our Pu-Be source produces this much radiation, in curies

What is 5?

300
This heavy metal is an excellent gamma shield

What is lead?

400

This technique shoots a targeted gamma ray beam into the brain

What is a gamma knife

400

Nuclear fuel is roughly this many times cheaper per kWh than fossil fuel

What is four?

400

This $28 billion dollar company is working with Purdue to develop SMRs

What is Duke Energy?

400

PUR-1 first operated in this year

What is 1962?

400

This dose of radiation is almost always considered lethal

What is 1000 rem/10 Sv?

500

Exit signs can glow this long with the help of tritium

What is 10 years?

500

This isotope is used in carbon dating

What is carbon-14?

500

There are this many operational nuclear power reactors worldwide

What is 440?

500

The manual for irradiating a live rat came from this decade

What is the 1970s?

500

Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henry Becquerel shared the nobel prize for discovering radiation in this year.

What is 1903?