1. ANDRA
a. The feminine form of the Norwegian name Anders.
b. An Egyptian word meaning "and Ra" to avoid going through the list of all the deities.
c. The female android with whom R2D2 falls in love in the movie The Phantom
Menace.
d. Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs, the national waste management
agency of France.
2. Bituminization
a. The process of reducing the volume of bite-size objects.
b. The fusing together of two small tumors.
c. New treatment for dog bites, created especially for postal workers.
d. In the context of nuclear waste management, the incorporation of liquid radioactive waste into
asphalt-like material.
3. PCBs
a. Abbreviation for Peas, Carrots and Broccoli.
b. In entymology, acronym for Pretty Cool Bumblebees.
c. Personal Computers of category B.
d. Poly-Chlorinated Biphenyls, a family of man-made chemicals known for their lubricating and
insulating properties and used in transformers and other electrical equipment. The manufacture of
PCBs stopped in the U.S. in 1977 because of evidence that they accumulate in the environment
and could cause human health hazards, including possibly skin lesions, damage to the skin and
nervous system, and liver cancer.
4. Teratogenic
a. Originally "Terre a Togenik," an expanse of land discovered by the Viking explorer
Togenik.
b. Genetically modified dirt.
c. A term used to describe a person who is always "biting the dust."
d. Describes a substance that causes birth defects by damaging the fetus.
5. VVER
a. What IEER used to be called.
b. The Russian version of the television show ER.
c. Very Very Excellent Return, term used by financial analysts.
d. The Russian acronym for pressurized water reactors. There are several models that have been
built. Older VVERs, called VVER 440/230s, have no secondary containment.
6. Waste injection
a. Synonym for toilet flushing.
b. A household appliance which increases the power of the home garbage disposal 250
percent.
c. A self-destructive drug habit.
d. A nuclear waste management practice in Russia involving the insertion of radioactive and other
hazardous liquid waste deep underground. Large-scale use of waste injection began in the late
1960s at three facilities in Russia -- Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk and Dimitrovgrad. The practice
continues today. In the past, waste injection was also used in the U.S., notably at the Department
of Energy's Oak Ridge facility in Tennessee.
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1. d
2. d
3. d
4. d
5. d
6. d
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