Science Quiz 6 - Nuclear Science Quiz -Answers

1. indivisible

The concept of the atom originated round 440 BC. Leucippus of Miletus and Democritus reasoned that all matter is composed of atoms. In Greek, the prefix "a" means "not" and the word "tomos" means cut. Thus atomos means uncuttable or indivisible

2. Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, USSR

On June 27, 1954, the USSR's Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant became the world's first nuclear power plant to generate electricity for a power grid, and produced around 5 megawatts of electric power and was shut down in 2002

3. Homi Jehangir Bhaba

India's First Nuclear Reactor was Apsara. It was also the first nuclear reactor in Asia. Apsara went critical at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay on August 4, 1956.

4. Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s stamp shows Curie alongside M. U. S. Sultanbawa – one of Sri Lanka’s most distinguished chemists.

5. 

Declared net capacity (DNC) is a measure of the contribution that a power station makes to the overall capacity of a distribution grid. It is measured in megawatts (MW), or in megawatts electrical (MWe) for a thermal power station.

6. Manhattan Project

From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory that designed the actual bombs.

7. Little Curies
Marie Curie persuaded French manufacturers of X-ray equipment to donate it along with portable electric generators which was fixed on vehicles to serve as mobile X-ray units and she trained 150 women to operate them. French soldiers dubbed these vehicles as petites Curies (little Curies).


8. Austria

A ton of pitchblend the Curies received as a donation from the Austrian government. The Austrians hoped she would find a use for a mineral their mines yielded as a waste byproduct.

9. Ukraine

The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 and was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history in terms of cost and casualtie

10. Warsaw, Poland

It was founded in 1932 as the Radium Institute by double-Nobel laureate Maria Skล‚odowska-Curie in collaboration with the Polish Government, especially President Ignacy Moล›cicki.

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