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Canada’s Nuclear History

Canada’s Nuclear History. JEOPARDY!. CANADA’S ECONOMY. CHALK RIVER. FAMOUS PEOPLE. POWER GENERATION. URANIUM MIINING. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 600. 600. 600. 600. 600. 800. 800. 800. 800. 800. 1000. 1000. 1000. 1000. 1000. Final Jeopardy.

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Canada’s Nuclear History

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  1. Canada’s Nuclear History JEOPARDY!

  2. CANADA’S ECONOMY CHALK RIVER FAMOUS PEOPLE POWER GENERATION URANIUM MIINING 200 200 200 200 200 400 400 400 400 400 600 600 600 600 600 800 800 800 800 800 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 Final Jeopardy

  3. Uranium Mining200 Points This element is 40 times more common than silver and 500 times more common than gold.

  4. Uranium Mining 200 Points What is uranium?

  5. Uranium Mining 400 Points This country is the world’s leading producer of uranium.

  6. Uranium Mining 400 Points What is Canada?

  7. Uranium Mining 600 Points Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, who named it after this recently discovered planet.

  8. Uranium Mining 600 Points What is Uranus?

  9. Uranium Mining 800 Points This has been the site of all major Canadian uranium discoveries in the past 40 years.

  10. Uranium Mining 800 Points What is the Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan?

  11. Uranium Mining 1000 Points Today, aircraft equipped with these fly low level surveys over areas that might contain uranium.

  12. Uranium Mining 1000 Points What are radiation detectors?

  13. Chalk River 200 Points Chalk River is located in this province.

  14. Chalk River 200 Points What is Ontario?

  15. Chalk River 400 Points As Canada’s national nuclear laboratory, Chalk River currently employs this many people.

  16. Chalk River 400 Points What is over 2 000 people?

  17. Chalk River 600 Points In the fall of 1945, a small low-power prototype reactor named this was constructed at Chalk River.

  18. Chalk River 600 Points What is ZEEP? (Zero Energy Experimental Pile)

  19. Chalk River 800 Points This was, for a time, the world’s most powerful research reactor.

  20. Chalk River 800 Points What is NRX? (National Research Experimental)

  21. Chalk River 1000 Points This was one of the first, and most significant, applications of the NRX.

  22. Chalk River 1000 Points What is the production of isotopes?

  23. Famous People200 Points This physicist won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 for work performed at Chalk River Laboratories in the 1950s.

  24. Famous People 200 Points Who is Dr. Bertram Brockhouse?

  25. Famous People 400 Points Dr. Harold Johns is famous for this.

  26. Famous People 400 Points What is the development of the cobalt-60 cancer therapy unit?

  27. Famous People 600 Points Pivotal in the Canadian nuclear power story was the pioneering work of this scientist in nuclear chain reactions.

  28. Famous People 600 Points Who is Dr. George Laurence?

  29. Famous People 800 Points The most stunning achievement from Dr. W.B. Lewis was this.

  30. Famous People 800 Points What is the development of the CANDU reactor?

  31. Famous People 1000 Points This person won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work at McGill University in Montreal.

  32. Famous People 1000 Points Who is Sir Ernest Rutherford?

  33. Power Generation200 Points CANDU reactors use this for fuel and this as a moderator.

  34. Power Generation 200 Points What is natural (or lightly enriched) uranium as fuel and heavy water as a moderator?

  35. Power Generation 400 Points CANDU reactors are now found in this many countries.

  36. Power Generation 400 Points What is seven? (Including Canada)

  37. Power Generation 600 Points In 1954, as part of an aid program to India, AECL agreed to help India build this.

  38. Power Generation 600 Points What is a research reactor based on the NRX design at Chalk River?

  39. Power Generation 800 Points These three Canadian provinces operate nuclear power reactors.

  40. Power Generation 800 Points What are Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick?

  41. Power Generation 1000 Points The Cernovoda Unit 1 nuclear plant, located in this country, was the first CANDU in Europe.

  42. Power Generation 1000 Points What is Romania?

  43. Canada’s Economy200 Points From mines in Saskatchewan, Canada provides this percentage of the total world production of uranium.

  44. Canada’s Economy 200 Points What is 22%?

  45. Canada’s Economy 400 Points Canada’s nuclear technology is responsible for supplying this percentage of the world’s medical isotopes.

  46. Canada’s Economy 400 Points What is 50%?

  47. Canada’s Economy 600 Points Canada is the leader in this technology, which is used to eliminate food-borne pathogens such as E.coli.

  48. Canada’s Economy 600 Points What is gamma irradiation technology?

  49. Canada’s Economy 800 Points Canada earns this much annually from the production of goods and services in the nuclear industry.

  50. Canada’s Economy 800 Points What is $6.6 billion?

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