LESSON 1 Test

Albert Einstein was recognized as:

The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was created to oversee the peaceful development of nuclear power on the national level.   The Atomic Energy Act created the concept of the “Agreement State.”

In 1946, Congress created the ______________ in order regulate nuclear energy and to promote atomic power.

The USS Nautilus had a strategic advantage.  What was its primary restriction?

The first nuclear test detonation by the U.S. was called:

The strategic effort by the U.S. to make the first nuclear bomb was called the:

The first controlled sustained nuclear reaction was due to the concentration of the isotope:

True or False

Enrico Fermi created the first controlled nuclear reactor.

Chadwick hypothesized the concept of the “isotope”.  This means….

Rutherford, performed many experiments in which he bombarded with energetic particles.  He discovered that the atom had _______charges.

True or False

The fundamentals of nuclear science are also fundamental to the basic theories surrounding the beginning of the universe.

Who developed the concept of understanding energy as “bundles” or “packets” of energy?

J. J. Thomson hypothesized the light in a Crooke’s tube was fast moving _________.

Who coined the term “radioactive”?

Which scientist was first to identify x-rays?

Wilhelm Roentgen experimented with ______ that he noticed created some unusual rays, he called x-rays.

True or False

The radioactivity term, becquerel, was named after Antoine Henri Becquerel.

True or False

The early radiation science pioneer, Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered that energy came from uranium.

When did the Earth’s FIRST nuclear reaction occur in Oklo?

True or False

“Unstable” elements we call as “radioactive.”