Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation

Radiation History to the Present—Understanding the Discovery of the Neutron

Radiation Utilizing Technology

Nuclear Mass and Stability, Nuclear Reactions and Notation, Introduction to Cross Section

Binding Energy, the Semi-Empirical Liquid Drop Nuclear Model, and Mass Parabolas

Mass Parabolas Continued, Stability, and Half-Life

The Q-Equation—The Most General Nuclear Reaction

Q-Equation Continued and Examples

Radioactive Decay—Modes, Energetics, and Trends

Radioactive Decay Continued

Radioactive Decay Continued

Radioactivity and Series Radioactive Decays

Numerical Examples of Activity, Half-Life, and Series Decay

Practical Radiation Counting Experiments—Solid Angle, Count Rates, Uncertainty, and Hands-On Gamma Counting and Nuclear Activation Analysis

Photon Interactions with Matter I—Interaction Methods and Gamma Spectral Identification

Photon Interaction with Matter II—More Details, Shielding Calculations

Nuclear Reactor Construction and Operation

Ion-Nuclear Interactions I—Scattering and Stopping Power Derivation, Ion Range

Ion-Nuclear Interactions II—Bremsstrahlung, X-Ray Spectra, Cross Sections

Uses of Photon and Ion Nuclear Interactions—Characterization Techniques

How Nuclear Energy Works

Neutron Transport

Simplifying Neutron Transport to Neutron Diffusion

Solving the Neutron Diffusion Equation, and Criticality Relations

Transients, Feedback, and Time-Dependent Neutronics

Review of All Nuclear Interactions and Problem Set 7 Help

Chernobyl—How It Happened

Nuclear Materials—Radiation Damage and Effects in Matter

Chernobyl Trip Report by Jake Hecla (a Former Student)

Nuclear Materials Science Continued

Radiation Dose, Dosimetry, and Background Radiation

Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine, Where One Finds Ionizing Radiation (Background and Other Sources)

Chemical and Biological Effects of Radiation, Smelling Nuclear Bullshit

Long-Term Biological Effects of Radiation, Statistics, Radiation Risk

Radiation Hormesis

Food Irradiation and Its Safety