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Nuclear processes

Lectures, notes, handouts, tutorials
My lecture presentations
A digest of definitions and topics related to nuclear chemistry (14)
Radioactivity Basics (and more) (12)
Nuclear Chemistry (17)
Animated glossary of nuclear science terms (1)
ABC's of Nuclear Science (1)
Sources of natural radiation (6)
Exploring the Table of Isotopes (1)
Periodic table for the Table of Isotopes (1) Requires Adobe Acrobat reader.
Comparison of fission and fusion (3)
Nuclear Fusion basics (4)
Interactive Fusion (2)
Comparison of the various types of nuclear reactors (13)
Frontline site on nuclear power issues (15)
Todd's Atomic Home Page--info and links on all topics (7) Alas, gone? Link is to Archive.org copy
Seattle Times: Fifty Years from Trinity (with resource links) (8)
Natural Fossil Fission Reactors (5)
Historical Figures in the discovery of Radioactivity (9)

Practice problems, tests, quizzes
My practice problems w/answers
My Sample Test (w/answers)
Nuclear reactions worksheet (17)

Experiments, demos
Demonstration of types of radioactivity (11)
The inverse square law and the intensity of beta radiation (1)
Range of alpha particle travel (1)
Range of gamma ray travel (1)
Penetrating power (1)
Radiography (1)
Half-life (1)
Magnetic deflection of beta particles (1)
Cloud Chambers (1)
Virtual Radiation Laboratory Experiments (10)
Nuclear mice (chain reaction demo) (16)
Amateur Radiation Detection and Experimentation Page (6)


(1) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(2) IPPEX
(3) Patrick Gormley, Lapeer Community Schools, Michigan
(4) Joint European Torus Project
(5) American Nuclear Society
(6) Chris Smolinski
(7) Todd A. Postma
(8) Seattle Times
(9) Access Excellence Project
(10) Cal Poly (Pomona) Physics Department
(11) Indiana University at Bloomington
(12) Integrated Environmental Management
(13) Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
(14) Ken Drews, Friends School of Baltimore
(15) PBS
(16) MAST, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(17) Tom Stretton, Thousand Islands Secondary School









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