Introduction to nuclear – LO – Understand
Understand advantages and disadvantages in determining uranium concentration in water by alpha spectrometry and Inductively Coupled Plasma mass spectrometry
Understand advantages and disadvantages in determining uranium concentration in water by alpha spectrometry and Inductively Coupled Plasma mass spectrometry
Analyse the spectra of two radioisotopes of plutonium using different devices, a portable sodium iodide and a GMX HPGe detector
Describe some methods and techniques for measuring various types of radiation fields, used in the Politecnico di Milano Nuclear Measurements Lab
Describe why some radionuclides cannot be easily detected and measured and how to deal with them.
Describe how neutrons are produced, how they can be classified and how they can be detected
Describe scintillation and semiconductor detectors and how they are used to detect gamma rays
Describe the main features of nuclear reactions and how to measure the so-called reaction cross-section.
Recall the different radioactive decay modes and the related properties
List and describe the main characteristics of the radioactive decay
Remember the main typologies of risk approaches in project management.
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