Across
- 3. a soldier who fights for any country or group that pays them
- 4. a substance that slows neutrons in a nuclear reactor
- 6. the act of officially taking a factory or other industrial building out of use
- 7. an extremely dangerous situation in a nuclear power station in which the nuclear fuel becomes very hot and melts through its container and escapes into the environment
- 9. the action of killing someone by causing electricity to flow through their body
- 11. the process of dividing the nucleus of an atom, resulting in the release of a large amount of energy
- 13. a specially prepared liquid that is used to stop a machine from getting too hot while it is operating
- 14. a mass of snow that has been pressed down so that it forms a hard layer
- 15. the place where fighting takes place in a war
Down
- 1. one of two halves of the earth, especially above or below the equator
- 2. the process of taking something into another substance
- 5. the season of heavy rain during the summer in hot Asian countries
- 8. a thick, flat piece of a solid substance, such as stone, wood, metal, food, etc., that is usually square or rectangular
- 10. a special court or group of people who are officially chosen, especially by the government, to examine (legal) problems of a particular type
- 12. the level of poison contained in a drug, or the ability of a drug to poison the body