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Nuclear Radiation Scavenger Hunt/Webquest

Part I: Medical Applications

1. What is Nuclear Medicine? ( Clue )

2. Why is Nuclear Medicine safe? ( Clue )

3. What are the two reasons that radioactive tracers are safe? Bonus: What is the other

name for radioactive tracers? ( Clue )

4. What do nuclear medicine imaging techniques scan for? ( Clue )

5. What is the most common acute side affect of radiation treatment? ( Clue )

6. What radioactive isotope is sometimes used for external treatment? ( Clue )

7. What radioactive isotope is used as an internal treatment for thyroid cancers? ( Clue )

Part II: Nuclear Reactors

8. Take this quiz and record your score.

9. What is the percentage of Uranium-235 present in enriched Uranium for power plants?

For weapons? ( Clue )

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/medphys/sections/NuclearMedicine.htm

http://www.nuclearimaging.com.au/whatis.htm

http://www.nuclearimaging.com.au/whatis.htm

http://health.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-medicine.htm

http://www.oncolink.com/treatment/article.cfm?c=5&s=30&id=33



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interact/survey.html

http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power1.htm

10. What is the function of control rods in a nuclear power plant? ( Clue )

11. Where does the energy from the nuclear reaction go? How is electricity generated?

( Clue )

12. Draw and label the diagram of the inside of the nuclear power plant. ( Clue )

Part III: Nuclear Power

13. What does the word "fission" mean? ( Clue )

14. What does the word "fusion" mean? ( Clue )

15. What is the main problem scientists have with fusion? ( Clue )

16. Why would fusion be better than fission? ( Clue )

Part IV: Nuclear Waste

17. What are the three types of regulated nuclear waste? ( Clue )

18. What state has the largest number of nuclear mills? ( Clue )



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interact/getclose.html

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter13.html




http://www.nrc.gov/waste.html

http://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/materials/uranium/

19. Where will most of America 's nuclear waste go? ( Clue )

Part V: Nuclear Weapons

20. What are some movies that show atomic bombs? ( Clue )

21. What are the three things that are needed to build a nuclear weapon? ( Clue )

22. What famous formula explains why so much energy comes from a nuclear bomb? (Clue)

Part VI: Radiation Exposure

23. What tool can measure radiation (ionizing radiation)? ( Clue )

24. What are the three sources of background radiation? ( Clue )

25. What radioactive isotope is in our body? ( Clue )

26. What is the average dose for a person? ( Clue )

27. What are the three outcomes of radiation on biological cells? (First paragraph of the second section)

28. Scroll down the cartoon at the bottom of this site and explain how the person got contaminated.

Part VII: Radioactive Dating

29. Why does radioactive dating work? ( Clue )

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interact/yucca.html

http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm

http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm

http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb1.htm

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/geiger.html

http://www.jlab.org/div_dept/train/rad_guide/sources.html



http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/bio-effects-radiation.html

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/bio-effects-radiation.html

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Nuclear/raddat.html

30. A substance that is 6789 years old has what percentage of carbon-14? ( Carbon-14 Calculator )

31. Who developed radiocarbon dating and what did he win? ( Clue )

32. What is the top age that you can use with carbon-14 dating? ( Clue )

33. What happens when something dies? How does help us figure out how long ago it died or was made? ( Clue )

34. Read the chart and answer the two questions.

Part VIII: Extras

35. What is in your house that uses radiation? What radioactive isotope is present? ( Clue )

36. How can radioactive isotopes be used in agriculture? ( Clue )

37. What is food irradiation? What isotopes are used? ( clue )

38. How does radiation measure the thickness of something? ( clue )

39. What is another use that is not previously mentioned of nuclear radiation? ( Clue )

http://earthsci.org/fossils/geotime/C14/Carbon%2014%20Dating%20Calculator.htm

http://earthsci.org/fossils/geotime/C14/Carbon%2014%20Dating%20Calculator.htm

http://earthsci.org/fossils/geotime/radate/radate.html#Radiocarbon

http://www.howstuffworks.com/carbon-14.htm

http://science.howstuffworks.com/carbon-142.htm

http://science.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=carbon-14.htm&url=http://vcourseware3.calstatela.edu/VirtualDating/files/RC0/RC_0.html

http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/nuclear/smoke.html

http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/nuclear/agriculture.html

http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/nuclear/food.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/radiation/radiocativerev9.shtml

http://www.hko.gov.hk/education/dbcp/radiation/eng/r19.htm?menu=radiation&radiation_4

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