It Pays to Increase Your Jargon Power
With Dr. Egghead

1. Ceramic immobilization

a. What Medusa practiced on her victims before she mastered turning them into stone.
b. What a sculptor has achieved after creating something too big to be moved.
c. The practice of using Velcro to attach expensive pieces of pottery to display stands so viewers will not knock them off.
d. The process of mixing plutonium in a ceramic medium to prevent its re-use in weapons. The process can also be applied to other radioactove materials.

2. Sinter

a. In word processing: to position text on a page so that it is equidistant from the left and right margins.
b.A type of block used in construction of bookshelves in college dorms.
c. To bond into a cohesive mass by exposing to extremely high temperatures. In the case of MOX fuel fabrication, sintering refers to the binding of uranium and plutonium oxides which are in the form of fine powders.

3. CANDU

a. Denoting proficiency in accomplishing tasks, as in "He's a real CANDU kinda guy."
b. A Hindu of Canadian descent.
c. Personalized license plate for couples named Carmen and Ulysses.
d. Abbreviation for Canadian Deuterium-Uranium reactor, which is a reactor that uses deuterium, or "heavy water" as a moderator and coolant.

4. Delayed neutrons

a. Neutrons that missed their bus in the morning.
b. Short for "de layed-back neutrons," abundant in California hot tubs.
c. Neutrons resulting from an atomic fission which are released from some short-lived fission products after fission occurs. This causes a delay between the fission and the emission of the neutron. In a typical light water reactor, delayed neutrons make up about two-thirds of one percent of the neutrons released during fissioning. Delayed neutrons are key to the control of a nuclear reactor.

5. Gallium

a. One of the Knights of the Round Table, known for his ability to bring people together.
b. Name of the ancient Roman physician that discovered the gall bladder.
c. Chemical found only in brazen individuals, which gave rise to expressions such as, "Well Ebinezer certainly has a lot of gall!"
d. A metal, atomic number 31, discovered by Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875 and named for the Latin word for France (Gallia). It is used as an alloying material in the manufacture of plutonium pits in nuclear warheads.

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Answers:
1. d
2. c
3. d
4. c
5. d