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| 1. The amount of a pollutant emitted to the air, water, or soil from a specific source, like a uranium machining plant. | 2. To separate plutonium and uranium out of spent fuel from reactors. |
| 7. A fissile material common in nuclear warheads that is primarily an emitter of alpha radiation. | 3. The common abbreviation for mixed-oxide fuel, in which the oxide form of uranium and plutonium are combined. |
| 8. Radiation released to the environment after a nuclear explosion. It may look like snowflakes in some cases. | 4. The abbreviation for one of two fissile materials that may readily be used in a simple bomb. |
| 9. The _____ standard means that weapons plutonium would be stored so that it would be as difficult to extract as plutonium from civilian spent fuel. | 5. Radiation that is found "naturally" in the environment. |
| 11. A regulatory requirement that a dose be kept as low as reasonably achievable. | 6. The unit of radioactivity named after the husband-wife science team that discovered radium. |
| 12. The technology that mixes a material with glass. | 7. The route by which a person or several people are exposed by a substance. |
| 10. One of the five countries that continues to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. |
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