====== NRC Textbook - Basics of Nuclear Physics and of radiation detection and measurement  ======

An open-access textbook for nuclear and radiochemistry students
by Jukka Lehto

===== Contents =====


  * [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter1|I The history of the research of radioactivity]]
  * [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter2|II The structure of atom and nucleus]] 
  * [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter3|III Stability of nuclei]] 
  * [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter4|IV Radionuclides]] 
  * [[textbook:nrctextbook:chapter5|V Modes of radioactive decay]] 
  * VI Rate of radioactive decay 
  * VII Interaction of radiation with matter 
  * VIII Measurement of radionuclides
  * IX Gamma detectors and spectrometry 
  * X Gas ionization detectors 
  * XI Alpha detectors and spectrometry 
  * XII Liquid scintillation counting 
  * XIII Radiation imaging 
  * XIV Statistical uncertainties in radioactivity measurements 
  * XV Nuclear reactions 
  * XVI Production of radionuclides 
  * XVII Isotope separations 
  * XVIII Calculation exercises