Nuclear Language
Tiny, airborne radioactive particles that fall to the ground after a nuclear explosion.
What is Radioactive Fallout?
A group of officials elected to the U.S. Congress from a particular state.
Who are the Congressional Delegation?
A complete change of direction or action; changed decision to do the the opposite.
What is 'reversed'?
The highly radioactive materials produced as a byproduct of the reactions that occur inside nuclear reactors.
What is 'high level radioactive waste'?
A complete change of direction or action; changed decision to do the the opposite.
What is 'reversed'?
A creature (human or animal) that has developed mutations (abnormal differences) after being exposed to radiation.
What is a Radioactive Mutant?
The chief representative of a political party in the Senate who is considered the most powerful member of the senate.
Who is the Senate Majority Leader?
Something is not extinguished, or has not been put out or has not been ended.
What is 'unextinguished'?
To maintain (something) in its original or existing state.
What is 'preserve'?
A method of conserving the environment that considers the needs of people, wildlife, and the planet as a whole. It aims to strengthen the social, economic, and ecological systems that support biodiversity.
What is the 'holistic conservation protection'?
A dump or disposal area for trash and other waste.
What is a Repository?
The agreement or cooperation of two political parties that usually oppose each other's policies. (2 party agreement)
What is Bipartisan?
Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.
What is 'consent'?
A professional who manages and oversees the handling, storage, and disposal of radioactive waste.
Who is a Radioactive Waste Specialist?
Also known as the "Newe" people, are a Native American tribe indigenous to the Great Basin region, primarily encompassing parts of present-day Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and California.
Who are the Western Shoshone Nation people?
The highly radioactive materials produced as a byproduct of the reactions that occur inside nuclear reactors.
What is High Level Radioactive Waste?
Money provided, especially by an organization or government, for a particular purpose.
What is funding?
Another word for 'stopped'.
What is 'halted'?
A type of pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease caused by breathing in tiny bits of silica, a common mineral found in sand, quartz and many other types of rock.
What is Silicosis?
Territorial lands of the Shoshone and Paiute peoples which include Yucca Mountain and other mountain formations.
What is the 60 million acre formation?
The nuclear fuel that has been used in a nuclear reactor to generate electricity.
What is Spent Fuel?
The procedure of obtaining a permit from a local government to develop or utilize a piece of land for a specific purpose.
What is the Licensing Process?
Imagining as a future possibility; visualizing.
What is 'envisioning'?
Split or broken volcanic rock formations that were formed from volcanic eruptions millions of years ago.
What are Fractured Volcanic Tuffs
A film/movie that follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
What is Oppenheimer?