This is a blog to aid English 9 students at PCS.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Sept 20, 2011

Here are some key words to use to research your Nuclear Tech project:

Fission
Fusion
Manhattan project
A bomb or atom bomb
H bomb or Hydrogen bomb
Albert Einstein
Theodore Roosevelt
Dr Robert Oppenheimer

Cold War
-timeline of main events, and development of nuclear weaponry
USSR
USA
-nuclear weapons programs
Planes, submarines, aircraft carriers
Nuclear deterrent
Cuban Missile Crisis
ICBM’s – Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaties
Ronald Reagan and “Star Wars”

Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Ground zero
Radiation
Radiation burns
Black rain
Blast wave
Firestorm
Fall out
Little Boy
Fat Man
Mushroom cloud
Nuclear Winter
Nuclear Summer

Tests and Accidents
-timeline
-map
-by country
-environmental effect
-names of tests
-variety of different accidents
Chernobyl
Japan
Nuclear reactor meltdown
Heavy water
Nuclear waste
Nuclear half life
Safety
Nuclear reactor
Enriched uranium
Plutonium
Medical isotopes

Nuclear capable countries
-map
-charts
Rogue states and nuclear weapons
Nuclear capable countries – who are their enemies?
Which countries want to acquire nuclear technology for the purpose of developing the bomb?
Cluster bombs
Dirty bombs
Nuclear Arms control
Use news websites for most up to date articles – eg BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, CBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, NY Times, Manchester Guardian…

Good website:  Nuclear Energy Institute

Try searching using image searches as well as web searches.  Look for video material also.






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