Nuclear energy

Online units conversion site.

Overheads, tables, web sites, instructor notes:

Reactors:

• Types of nuclear radiation.
• Fission.
• Fuel equivalent with coal,
• Processing: one, enrichment.
• How a reactor works, compared to coal plant.
• Reactors: locations US, locations world, types, PWR, BWR, LMFB, Passive BWR, containment.
• European Nuclear Society: Nuclear Power Plants world-wide.
• Lund Nuclear data service.
• Thorium.
• Inherently safe reactors: pebble bed.
• Waste: fission products, waste, treatment plants, recycling, waste activity over time.
• Nuclear binding energy: one, two.
• Fusion: plasma, inertial, tokomak.

Radiation and Risk:

• Radiation exposure units.
• Radiation effects.
• Shielding.
• Fault tree: one, two.
• Risk Compared to fossil fuels.
• Radiation exposure: average exposure, US exposure, radon, regulations.
• Exposure explanation: one, two, three. Princeton radiation safety page.
• Risk comparisons; one, two.
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki, dose model.
• Presidents report on 3 mile island.
• Chernobyl; reactor, fallout, fallout, YouTube of Pripyat one, two.
• Fukushima: Incident details. Food contamination, March 23, 2011. Real time map, fallout.
• NY Times summary of fallout risk.
• CDC radiation page.
• Web site to calculate your exposure.
• EPA monitoring sites.
• FDA page on radionucleides in food.
• Detailed information on dose.
• Cancer rates due to radiation (Google books).
• The BEIR VII phase Two report (on health risks of ionizing radiation).
• Radon:
  • Report.
  • CDC Web page on Radon.
  • EPA Radon page.
  • Radon detection kits: http://www.radonzone.com/ , http://www.radonamerica.com/ .

Pros and cons:

• World Nuclear Association.
• Union of ConcernedScientists (USA).
• Radiation and Life.
• Anti-nuclear power sites: (Contributed by students in P310)

Articles:

• "Managing the Environmental Legacy of U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Production"Kevin D. Crowley, John F. Ahearne,American Scientist vol. 90 No. 9 November-December (2002) p.
• 'Weapons of Mass Disruption', by Michael A. Levi and Henry C. Kelly, Scientific American vol. 288 No. 10 (2002) p.
• 'The future of nuclear power' John Deutch, Ernest Moniz, S. Ansolabehere, Michael Driscoll, Paul Gray, John Holdren, Paul Joskow, Richard Lester, and Neil Todreas, 2005.
• ' The status of Nuclear waste disposal' by D. Bodansky Physics and Society Vol. 35 No. 1 (2006) p4.