MIT 22.01 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation, Fall 2016 (English)

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Lecture 1: 1. Radiation History to the Present — Understanding the Discovery of the Neutron

Lecture 2: 2. Radiation Utilizing Technology

Lecture 3: 3. Nuclear Mass and Stability, Nuclear Reactions and Notation, Introduction to Cross Section

Lecture 4: 4. Binding Energy, the Semi-Empirical Liquid Drop Nuclear Model, and Mass Parabolas

Lecture 5: 5. Mass Parabolas Continued, Stability, and Half Life

Lecture 6: 6. The Q-Equation — The Most General Nuclear Reaction

Lecture 7: 7. Q-Equation Continued and Examples

Lecture 8: 8. Radioactive Decay — Modes, Energetics, and Trends

Lecture 9: 10. Radioactive Decay Continued

Lecture 10: 11. Radioactivity and Series Radioactive Decays

Lecture 11: 12. Numerical Examples of Activity, Half Life, and Series Decay

Lecture 12: 13. Practical Radiation Counting Experiments

Lecture 13: 14. Photon Interactions with Matter I — Interaction Methods and Gamma Spectral Identification

Lecture 14: 15. Photon Interaction with Matter II — More Details, Shielding Calculations

Lecture 15: 16. Nuclear Reactor Construction and Operation

Lecture 16: 17. Ion-Nuclear Interactions I — Scattering and Stopping Power Derivation, Ion Range

Lecture 17: 18. Ion-Nuclear Interactions II — Bremsstrahlung, X-Ray Spectra, Cross Sections

Lecture 18: 19. Uses of Photon and Ion Nuclear Interactions — Characterization Techniques

Lecture 19: 20. How Nuclear Energy Works

Lecture 20: 21. Neutron Transport

Lecture 21: 22. Simplifying Neutron Transport to Neutron Diffusion

Lecture 22: 23. Solving the Neutron Diffusion Equation, and Criticality Relations

Lecture 23: 24. Transients, Feedback, and Time-Dependent Neutronics

Lecture 24: 25. Review of All Nuclear Interactions and Problem Set 7 Help

Lecture 25: 26. Chernobyl — How It Happened

Lecture 26: 27. Nuclear Materials — Radiation Damage and Effects in Matter

Lecture 27: 28. Chernobyl Trip Report by Jake Hecla

Lecture 28: 29. Nuclear Materials Science Continued

Lecture 29: 30. Radiation Dose, Dosimetry, and Background Radiation

Lecture 30: 31. Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine, Where One Finds Ionizing Radiation (Background and Other Sources)

Lecture 31: 32. Chemical and Biological Effects of Radiation, Smelling Nuclear Bullshit

Lecture 32: 33. Long-Term Biological Effects of Radiation, Statistics, Radiation Risk

Lecture 33: 34. Radiation Hormesis

Lecture 34: 35. Food Irradiation and Its Safety