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Neutron chain-reacting systems

Explores chain reactions, multiplication factor, fuel cycles, reactor design, and types of nuclear reactors, ending with a summary of key concepts.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering: Wrap-up

Covers a wide range of topics in nuclear engineering, including reactor technology, safety challenges, and Generation IV concepts.

Momentum and Collisions

Explores momentum conservation in collisions and its applications in nuclear physics and chain reactions.

Multiplying media: Analytical Solutions and Non-leakage Probability

Covers media containing fuel, analytical solutions, and non-leakage probability for thermal and fast neutrons.

Neutron Physics: Reactor Overview

Covers neutron interactions, fission products, energy release, and reactor design considerations.

Nuclear Engineering: Fukushima and Beyond

Covers various topics in nuclear engineering, including Fukushima event analysis, Chernobyl accident, and reactor safety measures.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering: Safety Basics

Introduces nuclear engineering safety basics, emphasizing safety barriers, redundancy, and defense-in-depth concepts to prevent accidents.

Introduction to Nuclear Physics

Introduces nuclear reactor physics, covering nucleus composition, binding energy, and radioactivity.

Neutron moderation with absorption

Explores neutron moderation with absorption, resonances, and Fermi age theory in the context of neutron slowing down.

Nuclear fission: Energy Release and Fission Fragments

Explores energy release from fission, fuel burnup, and fission fragments yields and decay in a nuclear reactor.

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