NPRE 441
Professor
Assignments and Teaching Assistants
Assignments will account for 40 percent of the final grade.
Two midterm tests and one final test are scheduled.
Assignments and term project: 40 percent of the final grade.
Each test will account for 20 percent of the final grade for a total of 60 percent of the final grade.
3 hours or 3/4 unit
Calendar for Spring Semester, 2006
Room 203, Nuclear Engineering Laboratory
1:00-1:50 pm MWF
First Midterm |
Mon. Feb. 27, 2006, during class period. |
Second Midterm |
Mon. Apr. 3, 2006, during class period. |
Final examination |
Sat. May 6, 2006, 1:30-4:30 |
Instruction's beginning |
Tue. Jan. 17, 2006 |
Spring Break | Sat. 3/18/2006 - Sun. 3/26/2006 |
Instruction's end |
Wed. May 3rd, 2006 |
Reading Day |
Thu. May 4th, 2006 |
Final examinations |
Fri. May 5, 2006-Fri. May 12, 2006 |
Commencement | Sun. May 14, 2006 |
Lecture Notes
Radiation
Protection and Shielding
M. Ragheb
1. Radiation
Dosimetry
2. Cosmic and Space Radiation
3.
Ionizing Radiation
Units and Standards
4.
Nonionizing
Radiation
5.
Environmental
Radiation
6.
Radiation Hormesis
7. Environmental
Remediation of Radioactive Contamination
8. Radiobiological
Processes
9.
Gamma
Rays Interaction with Matter
10. Attenuation
of Gamma radiation
11.
Gamma
and X rays Detection
12.
Transport Theory
13.
Mathematical Formulation of Particle Transport
14.
Radioactive
Transformation Theory
15.
Neutron Collision
Theory
16.
The Monte Carlo Method
17.
Random Numbers Generation
18.
Analog Monte Carlo
19.
Sampling Methods
20.
Sampling
Special Distributions
21.
Estimation Methods in Monte
Carlo Particle Transport Simulations.
22.
Nuclear
Medicine Applications
23.
Positron
Emission Tomography
24.
Nuclear
Sterile Insect Technique
25.
Food
Preservation by Radiation
26.
Management
of Radioactive Waste
Appendices
Neutron dosimetry code
Input data
Cf-252 neutron source in water cylinder input data
30 group cross sections: H2O
30 group cross sections: Na
Vector Relations
List
of the Known Elements
Table of Neutron Cross
Sections
Conversion
Factors and Physical
Constants
Systeme
International (SI), Prefixes and Symbols
Greek Alphabet
Natural Nuclides Table
Artificial and
Natural Nuclides Table
Internal Links to Bookmarks
External Links
Nuclear Data for Isotopes and Elements
Radiation Safety and Health Physics
Nuclear Power Plants and Government Organizations
Breeder Nuclear Reactor Designs
Accelerator-Driven Reactors and Waste Transmutation
Accidents at Nuclear Facilities
Laboratories Involved in Fusion Research
Magnetic and Inertial Confinement Concepts for Fusion Reactors
Alternative Confinement Concepts for Fusion Reactors
Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion
Biological Research with Radioisotopes and Radiation
Medical Research with Radioisotopes and Radiation
Industrial Research with Radioisotopes and Radiation
Food Irradiation and Sterilization
Related Newsgroups on the Internet
To access these newsgroups, login into your student account, and use one of the available network news programs.
1. Lamarsh, John R. and Anthony J. Baratta, "Introduction
to Nuclear Engineering," 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall,
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458, 2001.
3. Lide, David R.,Ed., "CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics," 83rd Edition, CRC Press LLC, 2002.
NPRE402/ME402 Nuclear Power Engineering
NPRE490SF Nuclear and Radiological Safety
NPRE459/CSE417 Fuzzy Logic and its Applications
NPRE457/CSE462 Safety Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Systems
NPRE490M(NPRE456/CSE316) Monte Carlo Simulations
Please contact Prof. M. Ragheb as a Webmaster at: (217)333-6569 or (217)333-5187 with any feedback concerning this page.
Last update for this page was on 10/24/2013.