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At the centre of nuclear reactors are these (which are no bigger than the

tip of your finger).

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What are fuel pellets?

CANDU nuclear fuel pellets are made from this.

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What is naturally occurring uranium? (Mined in Canada)

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Fission occurs when this part of the atom is split.

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What is the nucleus?

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If the neutrons released during nuclear fission can be made to split

more atoms, it is called this.

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What is a chain reaction?

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There are this many operating CANDU reactors in Canada.

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What is 19 (at four sites)?

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Radiation therapy works by damaging this in a cell.

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What is DNA?

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In 1951, two of this type of machine first started treating cancer using

radiation.

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What are Cobalt-60 therapy units (also known as Cobalt “bombs”)?

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Nuclear medicine began in the 1950s by doctors who were

focused on treating this.

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What is thyroid disease?

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This is the most widely used diagnostic medical isotope.

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What Technetium-99m?

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In this form of treatment, radiation sources can be inserted directly into or

beside tumours to kill cancer cells.

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What is brachytherapy?

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Photocopiers use small amounts of radioactive material to do this.

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What is eliminate static and prevent paper from sticking together?

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This method of testing a structure does not cause damage to the

structure.

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What is non-destructive testing or NDT?

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This type of measuring tool uses radiation to make very precise

measurements.

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What is a nuclear gauge?

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This is the radioactive material usually used in smoke detectors.

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What is americum-241?

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This method for checking the quality of welding uses radioactive

materials.

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What is industrial radiography?

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Food irradiation can help prevent these from being transported across

borders.

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What are insects?

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Taking salt out of water is known as this.

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What is desalination?

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Radiation can help do this to harmful insects so that offspring are not

produced.

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What is sterilize?

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This food preservation process is similar to x-raying luggage at the

airport.

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What is food irradiation?

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This type of desalination is currently used in Kazakhstan, India and

Japan.

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What is nuclear desalination?

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Nuclear rocket engines offer this big advantage over chemical rocket

engines.

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What is much lighter fuel?

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This type of power source was first used on a US Navy satellite in 1961.

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What is a radioisotope thermo-electric generator (RTG)?

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NASA launched this RTG-powered space probe to study Saturn in 1997.

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What is Cassini?

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Radioisotope thermo-electric generators (RTGs) convert the heat

generated by this into electricity.

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What is the decay of plutonium-238?

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The New Horizons probe, which uses RTG technology, was launched

in 2006 to look at this object in space.

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What is Pluto?

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Many food irradiation machines use this as their source of radiation.

What is cobalt-60?

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