IEER SDA Volume 4, Number 2

The Atomic Puzzler!

It's time to challenge your word power and give your arithmetic abilities a calculated rest. This is not an interactive crossword, so you should print this page our first. Then, look at the clues and fill in the blocks with the appropriate words. All words are described somewhere in this issue of the newsletter. Good luck!
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2. A nuclear test that can be contained within an engineered structure (i.e. a lab) is called a ________________ test. 1. A mass of fissile material which can sustain a growing chain reaction is considered a _________ mass.
4. On July 16, 1945, the United States conducted its first nuclear test, called the ________ test. 3. The mass of a fissile material that will sustain a chain reaction.
5. An adjective used to describe the safety in a nuclear weapon. 6. The country that has performed the most nuclear tests.
6. The acronym for an international committee that studies radiation effects. 7. The energy released in a nuclear explosion.
8. A nuclear test in which there is no nuclear yield is called a _______ test. (two words) 10. The _____ equivalent is the unit most commonly used to measure the energy released in nuclear explosions.
9. The radioactive isotope of an element.
11. A process that uses intense light to produce tiny thermonuclear explosions.

Answers available here.

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