IEER | SDA V7N4 / E&S #10


Sharpen your technical skills with Dr. Egghead's
Atomic Puzzler

Gamma is back! Dr. Egghead's trusty dog Gamma has returned from a stint as Citizen Inspector at the opening of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Because Gamma is cross that WIPP has opened despite evidence that it may accept hazardous waste without the required permit (see SDA vol. 7 no. 2), he has created a special cross-word puzzler for SDA readers.

Across
1. A substance used to solidify liquid radioactive waste
3. These are used to store liquid radioactive waste
8. Russian liquid radioactive waste management method
11. Hard rock proposed as suitable for a geologic repository for radioactive waste
12. A U.S. federal body which enforces the 17 Across for chemicals like 16 Down
15. Type of Russian nuclear reactor
16. Mayak was the site for production of this element for the Russian nuclear weapons program
17. Concentration limit based on the level of exposure averaged over a period of time
18. Where to find 11 Across in France

Down
2. Keeps 30 nuclear weapons on its territory because it is a member of 9 Down
4. An alternative type of material to 11 Across
5. Threatened by U.S. and French laser fusion programs
6. National agency in charge of radioactive waste management in France
7. A U.S. federal body which recommends the 17 Across for chemicals like 16 Down
9. 2 Down is a member
10. Process to solidify liquid waste into glass logs
13. Contamination from this fission product is spreading from Mayak and threatens the Mishelyak river
14. Nuclear weapons usable material present at the Yugoslavian nuclear research institute
16. The 17 Across for this World War I chemical warfare agent is 0.1 ppm

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>Answers:

Across:
1. bitumen
3. tanks
8. injection
11. granite
12. OSHA
15. VVER
16. plutonium
17. TWA
18. Vienne

Down:
2. Italy
4. shale
5. CTBT
6. ANDRA
7. NIOSH
9. NATO
10. vitrification
13. Strontium
14. HEU
16. Phosgene

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