Code: 15JACH2 Nuclear Chemistry 2
Lecturer: doc. Ing. Václav Čuba Ph.D. Weekly load: 2+2 Completion: A, EX
Department: 14115 Credits: 4 Semester: W
Description:
The following topics are discussed in detail in the course: Nuclear reactions yield, reaction cross section, excitation function. Fission reaction, spontaneous fission. Chemistry of atoms formed in a nuclear reaction, local temperature, atomic recoil and recoil energy, recoil of atom bound in a molecule, hot atom chemistry, retention, Szilard Chalmers reaction.
Contents:
1.Yield of nuclear reactions, reaction cross section.
2.Excitation functions.
3.Types of nuclear fission, theory of fission.
4.Fission by thermal neutrons.
5.Fission products.
6.Fission by medium energy particles. High energy fission.
7.Spontaneous fission. Chain reaction.
8.Hot atom chemistry ? atomic recoil and recoil energy.
9.Reactions of hot atoms.
10.Processes in (n,g) reactions.
11.Processes in other binuclear reactions.
12.Processes in nuclear decay.
13.Processes in gamma-ray emission, isomeric transfer and internal conversion
Seminar contents:
1.Radionuclide generation in particle flux.
2.Reaction energy.
3.Threshold energy, endoergic reaction, Coulomb barrier energy .
4.Mass and energy balance of nucleus, binding energy.
5.Atomic recoil, recoil energy.
6.Fission reactions.
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

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