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This page gives an overall outline/stucture for the topics treated in the Fundamentals of Nuclear Science & Engineering course and it contains links to the available slides used in the classroom presentations during Spring 2016.
| Introductory Concepts and Applications of Radiation Science
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Lesson #
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| Basic Concepts/Terminology and Some Applications of Radiation Science |
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| Introductory Concepts Associated with Nuclear Reactor Design and Operation |
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| Key Characteristics of Different Types of Reactors |
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| Atomic & Nuclear Physics
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Lesson #
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| Basic Notation and Material Atom Densities |
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| Various Mass-Energy-Momentum Relationships |
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| Nuclear Models, Stability, and the Semi-Empirical Mass Formula |
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| Radiation and Radioactive Decay |
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| Radioactive Decay Calculations |
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| Interaction of Radiation with Matter
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| Lesson Topic |
Lesson #
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| Neutron Interactions I: Basic Definitions and Concepts |
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| Neutron Interactions II: General Natural of σ(E) |
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| Neutron Interactions III: The Fission Reaction |
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| Neutron Interactions IV: Elastic Scattering |
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| Photon and Charged Particle Interactions with Matter |
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Last updated by Prof. John R. White (February 2020)
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