Power Plants
Nuclear power plants follow what thermodynamic cycle.
What is Rankine Cycle?
This nuclear meltdown was initially triggered by an earthquake and a tsunami.
What is Fukushima?
This country produces the most uranium.
What is Kazakhstan?
This device is commonly used to create medical radioisotopes.
What is Particle Accelerator?
This country has the most nuclear reactors.
What is The United States?
This American power plant type has the fuel rods come in from the bottom.
What is BWR?
This unit of the TMI experienced a meltdown on March 28th, 1979
What is Unit 2?
It is the common name for U3O8, an intermediate step in uranium fuel production.
What is Yellowcake?
These Substances the contain radioactive isotopes are injected into patients to aid in imaging.
What are Radiotracers/tracers?
In process is used to prevent food spoilage, extend shelf life, and kill pathogens.
What is food irradiation?
This material is commonly used as cladding for commercial nuclear fuel.
What is zirconium alloy?
What is the term for when a nuclear weapon is lost?
What is Broken Arrow?
What is the HALEU enrichment limit?
What is less than 20%?
Considered the "rarest drug on Earth", This radioisotope is an extremely effective cancer treatment.
What is Actinium-225 (Ac-225)?
Fusion generator design that allows for a constant magnetic flux to be generated. (HINT: it's not a Tokamak)
What is a Stellarator?
This fuel is considered "most robust nuclear fuel on earth" and played a key role in the development of PBRs (pellet bed reactors).
What is TRISO fuel?
This U.S. power plant nearly had a major accident due to severe corrosion of the vessel head that went undetected.
What is Davis Besse?
Prior to being assembled into rods, fuel pellets must go through a high temp oven to turn them into what material?
What is ceramic?
This medical device had to be renamed, excluding the word nuclear so patients would trust it more. (HINT: originally called NMR)
What is MRI?
These generators are used to power deep space probes.
What are RTGs?
This reactor, created at the university of Chicago was the first artificial nuclear reactor.
What is Chicago Pile-1?
The buildup of what element caused the reactor operators at Chernobyl to pull control rods out, thus causing the explosion
What is a Xenon (Xe-135)?
What chemical compound is made when yellowcake reacts with fluorine gas. This material is also what is shipped to enrichment facilities and fuel producers.
What is Uranium Hexafluoride (or UF6)?
The most commonly used radiopharmaceutical in nuclear medicine.
What is Technetium-99m?
This town in Idaho was the first to be fully powered by nuclear power.
What is Arco?