Nuclear Physics- Jade Su

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