Nuclear Physics- Jade Su
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- 3. Amount of heat required to change the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit
- 4. Aluminum, stainless steel and _____ are alloys that are common cladding materials
- 5. force It's very strong; at least 100 times as strong as electrical force.
- 7. The nations of the world now have more than enough nuclear ____ to kill every person on earth.
- 9. Space between fuel pellet and fuel rod cladding
- 10. The energy liberated by fission or fusion
- 12. Heavy nuclei produce energy by ____.
- 14. Most obvious example of fusion is ____.
- 15. The absorption of radiation of a radionuclide to reprocess to reclaim to reuse
- 17. reactor If each fission causes one additional fission you have a ____.
- 18. The smallest part of an element that can't be divided by chemical means
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- 1. A beta minus particle is ____.
- 2. Energy released in nuclear reactions
- 6. The key to bomb making is to get the ____ as compact as possible with little surface area for neutrons to escape through.
- 7. The minimum energy you have to add to separate a nucleus
- 8. Anything that absorbs heat
- 11. Is the cheapest kind of explosive man has invented (after an H-bomb!)
- 13. The basic unit used to describe the intensity of radioactivity or the rate of decay of 1 gram of radium
- 16. An elementary nuclear particle with a positive electric charge