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| − | To teach NRC students the basic knowledge in nuclear physics in order to understand the nature<br>of radioactivity, reasons for stability/instability of nuclides, modes of radioactive decay<br>processes, types of radiation emitted in radioactive decay processes and the rate of radioactive<br>decay | + | To teach NRC students the basic knowledge in nuclear physics in order to understand the nature<br>of radioactivity, reasons for stability/instability of nuclides, modes of radioactive decay<br>processes, types of radiation emitted in radioactive decay processes and the rate of radioactive<br>decay |
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| + | *structure of atom and nucleus, nucleons | ||
| + | *nuclides, radionuclides, isotopes, isobars, nuclide charts | ||
| + | *types and origin of radionuclides (natural decay series, primary primordial radionuclides,<br>secondary natural radionuclides, cosmogenic radionuclides, artificial radionuclides,<br>formation and occurrence) | ||
| + | *stability of nuclei (stable nuclides vs. radionuclides, masses on nucleons, mass deficiency,<br>binding energy, binding energy per nucleon, proton to neutron ratio, energy valley –<br>semiempirical equation of mass – beta parabola, fission, fusion) | ||
| + | *modes of radioactive decay<br>o fission (process, spontaneous vs. induced, energetics, formation of fission products,<br>fission yields, fissionable/fissile, nature of fission products)<br>o alpha decay (process, energetics, alpha recoil, decay to daughter’s ground state,<br>decay to daughter’s exited state, formation of alpha spectrum)<br>o beta decay (processes in beta minus decay, positron decay and electron capture,<br>energetics, beta recoil, neutrino/antineutrino, distribution of decay energy, formation<br>of beta spectrum, beta parabola for odd/even nuclides, secondary processes (gamma<br>decay, formation of Auger electrons and X-rays, annihilation of positrons)<br>o internal transition (gamma decay, internal conversion, energetics, gamma recoil,<br>metastable isomeric states, formation of gamma spectrum)<br>- rate of radioactive decay, half-life, activity units, activity concentrations vs. specific activity,<br>activity vs. count rate, determination of half-lives, equilibria in successive decay processes<br>- isotopic exchange - isotope effects<br>- principles and uses of nuclear power reactors<br> | ||
Revision as of 22:32, 11 September 2012
Radioactivity, radionuclides and radiation
– principles of nuclear physics to radiochemists
Aim
To teach NRC students the basic knowledge in nuclear physics in order to understand the nature
of radioactivity, reasons for stability/instability of nuclides, modes of radioactive decay
processes, types of radiation emitted in radioactive decay processes and the rate of radioactive
decay
Suptopics
- structure of atom and nucleus, nucleons
- nuclides, radionuclides, isotopes, isobars, nuclide charts
- types and origin of radionuclides (natural decay series, primary primordial radionuclides,
secondary natural radionuclides, cosmogenic radionuclides, artificial radionuclides,
formation and occurrence) - stability of nuclei (stable nuclides vs. radionuclides, masses on nucleons, mass deficiency,
binding energy, binding energy per nucleon, proton to neutron ratio, energy valley –
semiempirical equation of mass – beta parabola, fission, fusion) - modes of radioactive decay
o fission (process, spontaneous vs. induced, energetics, formation of fission products,
fission yields, fissionable/fissile, nature of fission products)
o alpha decay (process, energetics, alpha recoil, decay to daughter’s ground state,
decay to daughter’s exited state, formation of alpha spectrum)
o beta decay (processes in beta minus decay, positron decay and electron capture,
energetics, beta recoil, neutrino/antineutrino, distribution of decay energy, formation
of beta spectrum, beta parabola for odd/even nuclides, secondary processes (gamma
decay, formation of Auger electrons and X-rays, annihilation of positrons)
o internal transition (gamma decay, internal conversion, energetics, gamma recoil,
metastable isomeric states, formation of gamma spectrum)
- rate of radioactive decay, half-life, activity units, activity concentrations vs. specific activity,
activity vs. count rate, determination of half-lives, equilibria in successive decay processes
- isotopic exchange - isotope effects
- principles and uses of nuclear power reactors
