Radioactive Particles
Fission or Fusion
Nuclear Equations
Power Plant
Mixed Bag
100
Protons and neutrons
What are nucleons?
100
Process that produces helium in the sun
What is fusion?
100
21483Bi ---> 0-1β + _____
What is 21484Po?
100
White 'smoke' given off by cooling towers
What is steam?
100
What is the half life of the element on the graph?
8 days
200
This is why protons are held together in the nucleus.
What is the strong nuclear force?
200
Process used in most power plants
What is fission?
200
23491Pa ---> _________ + 42α
What is 23089Ac?
200
Slow down neutron bombardment
What are control rods?
200
Closest state where nuclear waste is stored
What is Utah?
300
Type of decay that can be held safely in your hand.
What are alpha particles?
300
Carbon-14 dating is possible because of this process
Fission?
300
23490Th ---> 23491 Pa + _________
What is 0-1β
300
Common fuel in nuclear reactors
What is uranium oxide?
300
order of radiation types' penetrating power from greatest to least
What is gamma, beta, alpha?
400
Its release does not change atomic number
What are gamma rays?
400
Particles responsible for keeping fission reactions continuing
What are neutrons? (or alpha particles)
400
235 92 U + 10 N ---> ____ + 13956 Ba + 9336 Kr
What is 4 10N?
400
Site of only nuclear accident in the U.S.
What is Three-Mile Island?
400
Can be stopped with paper
Alpha Radiation
500
All atoms with more than _________ protons are radioactive.
What are 82 protons?
500
Also known as an electron
What are beta particles?
500
23491 Pa + 0-1β ---> _________
What is 23490Th
500
Location of possible storage of nuclear Waste.
What is yucca mountain?
500
Explain each variable in E=mc2
E= Energy
M=Mass
c= speed of light