Description:

Concept and history of nuclear chemistry and radiochemistry, nuclear entities, nuclear reactions, natural and artificial radioactivity. Kinetics of nuclear reactions, laws of radioactive decay. Energetics of nuclear reactions, mass and energy balance of nuclei and energy of alpha, beta decay, gamma deexcitation in nuclear reactions.

Contents:

1.Concept and history of nuclear chemistry and radiochemistry and their place among scientific disciplines.
2.Subatomic structure of matter, atomic nucleus, its description, properties and stability.
3.Nuclear reactions, their classification, characteristics and mechanism.
4.Natural and artificial radioactivity, natural decay chains.
5.Kinetics of nuclear reactions: kinetic laws of radioactive decay, parameters characterizing the rate of radioactive decay.
6.Activity and amount of radionuclide.
7.Kinetics of formation of radionuclides.
8.Activity of a system of independent radionuclides.
9.Radionuclides in genetic sequence, radioactive equilibria, kinetics of dual transformations.
10.Energetics of nuclear reactions: nuclear energy, exoenergetic and endoenergetic reactions, nuclear binding energy.
11.Energy of alpha decay, energy of beta decay, gamma deexcitation in nuclear reactions.
12.Decay schemes.

Seminar contents:

1.Description and taxonomy of nuclear reactions.
2.Activity and amount of radionuclide.
3.Kinetics of simple radioactive decay.
4.Kinetics of decay of the system of independent radionuclides.
5.Kinetics of transformations in radioactive chains.
6.Radioactive equilibria.

Recommended literature:

Key Literature:
1. G. R. Choppin et al.: Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry, 4th Ed., Academic Press, 2013
2. F. Rösch: Nuclear- and Radiochemistry, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2014
Recommended Literature:
1. A. Vértes et al. (Eds.): Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2003
2. D. Loveland, D. J. Morrissey, G. T. Seaborg: Modern Nuclear Chemistry, 2nd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2017

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar