Nuclear Engineering

Freezing a lightbulb with liquid nitrogen

Lecture 8: Radioactive Decay—Modes, Energetics, and Trends

Lecture 11: Radioactivity and Series Radioactive Decays

Why are nuclear power plants so expensive in the U.S.?

Principles of Radiation Interactions

Generating 500,000 volts with a Van de Graaff generator

Lecture 5: Mass Parabolas Continued, Stability, and Half-Life

Lecture 13: The Linear No-Threshold Theory

Lecture 30: Radiation Dose, Dosimetry, and Background Radiation

Lecture 28: Chernobyl Trip Report by Jake Hecla

Visit MIT's nuclear reactor

Lecture 1: South Asia Under the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons

Lecture 33: Long-Term Biological Effects of Radiation, Statistics, Radiation Risk

How can we make nuclear fuel safer?

Social Problems of Nuclear Energy

Lecture 17: Ion-Nuclear Interactions I—Scattering and Stopping Power Derivation, Ion Range

Lecture 16: Nuclear Reactor Construction and Operation

Lecture 6: Nuclear Reactor Cost Around the World and the Potential for Cost Reduction

Lecture 19: Why the Public Is Skeptical About Nuclear Power—a Way Forward

Lecture 18: Ion-Nuclear Interactions II—Bremsstrahlung, X-Ray Spectra, Cross Sections