-Radioactive decay
-Interaction between ionizing radiation and materia
-Chemical and biological impact of ionizing radiation
-Mining of Uranium
-Enrichment of Uranium and fuel production
-Reactor chemistry
-Reprocessing of nuclear fuel
-Accidents related to the Nuclear industry
-Nuclear bomb testing
-Risk philosophy
Study visits at nuclear power plants
After the course the student should be able to:
-Describe radioactive decay and explain how different types of radiation interact with different media
-Calculate the activity of a substance by knowing the mass
-Understand how biological material is influenced by ionizing radiation
-Describe how radionuclides are enriched in natural systems
-Outline all the different parts of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle and describe them in chemical therms
-Explain the chemical impact of the different parts and describe the environmental impact
-Understand what principles a geological repository of spent nuclear fuel lean on and describe the important chemical processes whithin this system
-Relate the properties of the actinides to their chemistry
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