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Lecture 16: Nuclear Reactor Construction and Operation

Prof. Michael Short · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  1. Lecture 1: Radiation History to the Present—Understanding the Discovery of the Neutron 54 min · Video
  2. Lecture 2: Radiation Utilizing Technology 1 h 9 min · Video
  3. Lecture 3: Nuclear Mass and Stability, Nuclear Reactions and Notation, Introduction to Cross Section 54 min · Video
  4. Lecture 4: Binding Energy, the Semi-Empirical Liquid Drop Nuclear Model, and Mass Parabolas 53 min · Video
  5. Lecture 5: Mass Parabolas Continued, Stability, and Half-Life 56 min · Video
  6. Lecture 6: The Q-Equation—The Most General Nuclear Reaction 51 min · Video
  7. Lecture 7: Q-Equation Continued and Examples 52 min · Video
  8. Lecture 8: Radioactive Decay—Modes, Energetics, and Trends 50 min · Video
  9. Lecture 10: Radioactive Decay Continued 1 h 34 min · Video
  10. Lecture 11: Radioactivity and Series Radioactive Decays 55 min · Video
  11. Lecture 12: Numerical Examples of Activity, Half-Life, and Series Decay 1 h 2 min · Video
  12. Lecture 13: Practical Radiation Counting Experiments—Solid Angle, Count Rates, Uncertainty, and Hands-On Gamma Counting and Nuclear Activation Analysis 1 h 35 min · Video
  13. Lecture 14: Photon Interactions with Matter I—Interaction Methods and Gamma Spectral Identification 53 min · Video
  14. Lecture 15: Photon Interaction with Matter II—More Details, Shielding Calculations 50 min · Video
  15. Lecture 16: Nuclear Reactor Construction and Operation 46 min · Video
  16. Lecture 17: Ion-Nuclear Interactions I—Scattering and Stopping Power Derivation, Ion Range 48 min · Video
  17. Lecture 18: Ion-Nuclear Interactions II—Bremsstrahlung, X-Ray Spectra, Cross Sections 53 min · Video
  18. Lecture 19: Uses of Photon and Ion Nuclear Interactions—Characterization Techniques 48 min · Video
  19. Lecture 20: How Nuclear Energy Works 52 min · Video
  20. Lecture 21: Neutron Transport 55 min · Video
  21. Lecture 22: Simplifying Neutron Transport to Neutron Diffusion 49 min · Video
  22. Lecture 23: Solving the Neutron Diffusion Equation, and Criticality Relations 50 min · Video
  23. Lecture 24: Transients, Feedback, and Time-Dependent Neutronics 48 min · Video
  24. Lecture 25: Review of All Nuclear Interactions and Problem Set 7 Help 41 min · Video
  25. Lecture 26: Chernobyl—How It Happened 55 min · Video
  26. Lecture 27: Nuclear Materials—Radiation Damage and Effects in Matter 56 min · Video
  27. Lecture 28: Chernobyl Trip Report by Jake Hecla 53 min · Video
  28. Lecture 29: Nuclear Materials Science Continued 58 min · Video
  29. Lecture 30: Radiation Dose, Dosimetry, and Background Radiation 56 min · Video
  30. Lecture 31: Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine, Where One Finds Ionizing Radiation 52 min · Video
  31. Lecture 32: Chemical and Biological Effects of Radiation, Smelling Nuclear Bullshit 1 h · Video
  32. Lecture 33: Long-Term Biological Effects of Radiation, Statistics, Radiation Risk 51 min · Video
  33. Lecture 34: Radiation Hormesis 1 h 19 min · Video
  34. Lecture 35: Food Irradiation and Its Safety 55 min · Video