Energy Education:Chapter 7

Please read the following pages and watch the videos before the lectures on chapter 7:

7A:

• Uranium mining
• Strong force
• Energy from nuclei
• Uranium & thorium
• Nuclear fission
• Nuclear chain reaction

7B:

• Uranium enrichment
• Heavy water
• Control rod
• CANDU reactor
• Nuclear waste
• The NWMO site

7C:

• Radiation
• Alpha decay, beta decay and gamma decay
• Ionizing radiation
• Half life
• Linear no-threshold model
• Find your own radiation dose!