Safety
Who governs nuclear safety both nationally and globally?
NRC and IAEA
Who is the father of the atomic bomb?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Which type of nuclear reactor is the most commonly used in the US?
PWR
Name 4 applications of Nuclear
Power, Health, Technology, Desalination, Space Exploration, Defense, Medicine, Agriculture, Etc.
What was the first Nuclear Reactor
Chicago Pile-1
What does ALARA stand for?
As low as reasonable achieveable
Who coined the term “radioactive”?
Marie Curie
This home of a national laboratory, bearing the same name as the county wherein it resides, may also be known as The Cottonwoods or The Poplars
Los Alamos
What type of nuclear reaction is the primary producer of the energy in the Sun?
Fusion
What was the code name used for the first U.S. test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb?
Castle Bravo
What title of the Code of Federal Regulations governs the use of nuclear material?
Title 10
Name 4 physicists that developed the models of the atom?
Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr
How many operating commercial nuclear reactors are there in the US?
94 reactors (54 nuclear power plants)
What isotope is commonly used as a radiation source in smoke detectors?
Americium 241
Name 2 of the 6 universities that were involved in the Manhattan Project
Iowa State, Columbia, U Chicago, University of California Berkley, University of Minnesota, University of Virginia
What does SCRAM stand for?
Safety Control Rod Axe Man
Who is the first woman to be a physics professor in Germany and the first to coin the term "nuclear fission"?
Lisa Meitner
Name two out of the three different types of neutrinos
Electron, Muon, Tau
What do we use in a Neutron source in reactors?
Beryllium
What was the NRC called before it was the NRC?
Atomic Energy Commission
What is the lethal dose of radiation? Hint: LD (50/30) in rem or sieverts
400-450 rem (4-5 sieverts)
This physicist has many honors (some posthumous) including being interred near Sir Isaac Newton at Westminster Abbey, having a chemical named after him/her, receiving a nobel prize in chemistry, and being knighted.
Ernest Rutherford
How many days would you have to be in Atlanta to get a dose equivalent of 1 mrem?
3 Days
Name one of the two Isotopes used as a fertiliser in agriculture?
N-15, P-32
On what date did the Chernobyl disaster occur? (Day, Month, and Year)
Saturday, April 26, 1986