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22.01 | Fall 2016 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation

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Lecture 1: Radiation History to the Present—Understanding the Discovery of the Neutron
Lecture 2: Radiation Utilizing Technology
Lecture 3: Nuclear Mass and Stability, Nuclear Reactions and Notation, Introduction to Cross Section
Lecture 4: Binding Energy, the Semi-Empirical Liquid Drop Nuclear Model, and Mass Parabolas
Lecture 5: Mass Parabolas Continued, Stability, and Half-Life
Lecture 6: The Q-Equation—The Most General Nuclear Reaction
Lecture 7: Q-Equation Continued and Examples
Lecture 8: Radioactive Decay—Modes, Energetics, and Trends
Lecture 10: Radioactive Decay Continued
Lecture 11: Radioactivity and Series Radioactive Decays
Lecture 12: Numerical Examples of Activity, Half-Life, and Series Decay
Lecture 13: Practical Radiation Counting Experiments—Solid Angle, Count Rates, Uncertainty, and Hands-On Gamma Counting and Nuclear Activation Analysis
Lecture 14: Photon Interactions with Matter I—Interaction Methods and Gamma Spectral Identification
Lecture 15: Photon Interaction with Matter II—More Details, Shielding Calculations
Lecture 16: Nuclear Reactor Construction and Operation
Lecture 17: Ion-Nuclear Interactions I—Scattering and Stopping Power Derivation, Ion Range
Lecture 18: Ion-Nuclear Interactions II—Bremsstrahlung, X-Ray Spectra, Cross Sections
Lecture 19: Uses of Photon and Ion Nuclear Interactions—Characterization Techniques
Lecture 20: How Nuclear Energy Works
Lecture 21: Neutron Transport
Lecture 22: Simplifying Neutron Transport to Neutron Diffusion
Lecture 23: Solving the Neutron Diffusion Equation, and Criticality Relations
Lecture 24: Transients, Feedback, and Time-Dependent Neutronics
Lecture 25: Review of All Nuclear Interactions and Problem Set 7 Help
Lecture 26: Chernobyl—How It Happened
Lecture 27: Nuclear Materials—Radiation Damage and Effects in Matter
Lecture 28: Chernobyl Trip Report by Jake Hecla
Lecture 29: Nuclear Materials Science Continued
Lecture 30: Radiation Dose, Dosimetry, and Background Radiation
Lecture 31: Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine, Where One Finds Ionizing Radiation
Lecture 32: Chemical and Biological Effects of Radiation, Smelling Nuclear Bullshit
Lecture 33: Long-Term Biological Effects of Radiation, Statistics, Radiation Risk
Lecture 34: Radiation Hormesis
Lecture 35: Food Irradiation and Its Safety

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