Accidents Happen
This nuclear accident happened in 1986 and was the topic of HBO miniseries.
What is chernobyl?
An isotope of this element is used to date organic matter up to 50,000 years.
What is carbon-14?
This saturday event is one Troy's most popular activities.
What is the Troy Farmers Market?
This unit is the SI unit for energy.
This intro level engineering class is notorius for weeding out freshman students.
What is Introduction to Engineering Analysis?
This german airliner exploded after trying to land in rural New Jersey.
What is the Hindenburg?
The first discovered radioactive element.
What is Uranium?
Who is Uncle Sam
The numeric value of a Curie
What is 3.7 * 1010 decays/second?
This "intro" level computer science class humbles many students due to its long homeworks and difficult material.
What is data structures
This small component is thought to be the reason the space shuttle challenger exploded
All heavy radioisotopes decay into this stable element.
What is Lead?
This nickname for the city of Troy owes it name to a distinct part of dressware.
What is the Collar City?
This unit for measuring reactor reactivity shares its name with a common item in your wallet.
What is a dollar?
This core science class is notoriously taken outside of RPI due to its perceived difficulty
What is Physics II?
This powerplant has been subject to recent contraversy over ejecting contaminated water into the ocean
What is Fukashima?
The lightest radioactive element after lead
What is Bismuth?
Troy is home to this famous all-girls preperatory school. The first of its kind in the US.
What is the Emma Willard School?
This unit for measuring the probability of neutron interactions gets its name from this iconic feature of a farm.
What is the Barn?
This course required for all engineers is notorius for its difficulty and failure rate.
What is Mau?
This nuclear accident in rural Idaho is known first nucelar accident in the United States
What is the SL-1 disaster?
This radioctive element was the first one created by humanity.
What is Tecnitium?
The capital is notorius for the presence of this radioactive gas.
What is Radon?
This is defined as 10 nanoseconds and shares its name with a common fast food item.
What is a shake?