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A device in which a fission chain reaction can be initiated, maintained, and controlled. Its essential components are fissionable fuel, moderator, shielding, control rods, and coolant.
What is a Nuclear Reactor?
Known as the "Father of Nuclear Chemistry", and for his contributions to radiochemistry and radioactivity research
Who is Otto Hahn?
A technique for estimating the age of an object by measuring the amounts of various radioisotopes in it
What is Radioactive Dating?
One millionth of a curie (3.7 x 104 disintegrations per second).
What is a Microcurie
What does decaying polonium emit (what kind of particles)
What are α particles?
A constituent of the nucleus; that is, a proton or a neutron.
What is a Nucleon?
Discovered atomic energy by revealing neutron-induced nuclear fission in uranium (1938)
Who is Fritz Strassmann?
Materials which are radioactive and for which there is no further use.
A unit of measurement representing a meggannum of electron volts
What is a MeV?
A highly radioactive and scarcely used element/isotope, but is used to specifically treat prostate cancer if it is present in the bones
What is Radium-233?
The science, technology, and application of nuclear energy.Nucleus
What are Nucleonics?
Discovered radium and polonium
Who is Marie Curie?
The spontaneous decay of disintegration of an unstable atomic nucleus accompanied by the emission of radiation.
What is Radioactivity?
A unit of measurment representing a millenia of electron volts
what is a keV?
Formed from the decay of uranium
What is Radon?
The core of the atom, where most of its mass and all of its positive charge is concentrated. Except for hydrogen, it consists of protons and neutrons.
What is a Nucleus?
Discovered that mass and energy are interchangable
?A radioactive isotope. A common term for a radionuclide.
What is a Radioisotope?
A particle with a mass of 1/1837 of a proton
What is an Electron
Radioactive elements subject to radioactive decay overtime, including uranium, thorium, and plutonium
What are actinides?
Any species of atom that exists for a measurable length of time. A nuclide can be distinguished by its atomic weight, atomic number, and energy state.
What is a nuclide?
A well known theoretical physicist, developed the first atomic bomb
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
A radioactive nuclide. An unstable isotope of an element that decays or disintegrates spontaneously, emitting radiation.
SI unit of radioactivity (1 desintigration/sec)
What is a Becquerel (Bq)?
Used in "breeding" with Uranium-233 to create efficient nuclear fuel, it also generates more fissile material than it consumes while producing fewer minor actinides than plutonium
What is Thorium?