Nuclear Quiz

Q1: Which subatomic particle is uncharged?

a) Muon
b) Electron
c) Proton
d) Neutron

Q2: Which atom is heavier?

a) Uranium
b) Lead
c) Titanium

Q3: What do you call a nucleus that will fission only if a fast neutron hits it?

a) Fertile
b) Fissionable
c) Fissile
d) Depreciated

Q4: Which of the following were nuclear explosions?

a) Chernobyl
b) Three Mile Island
c) Hiroshima
d) The Trinity test

Q5: High-level nuclear waste is...

a) Green ooze
b) Solid, radioactive ceramic or metal
c) Waste liquid from nuclear reactors

Q6: Nuclear engineers model neutrons in reactors using...

a) Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
b) The Boltzmann transport equation
c) The Navier-Stokes formula
d) Maxwell's equations

Q7: What is this:

Mystery image a) Highly enriched uranium
b) Fluorescence
c) Acid
d) Cherenkov radiation

Q8: The first electricity generating nuclear reactor was:

a) 1942 at CP-1: Fermi's pile under the football stadium in Chicago
b) 1957 at Shippingport, Pa
c) 1938 in Edinburgh, Scotland
d) 1951 near Arco, Idaho at the Experimental Breeder Reactor - I (EBR-I)