Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation

Video Lectures

Note: Video of Lecture 9 is not available.

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