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

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

• I The history of the research of radioactivity
• II The structure of atom and nucleus
• III Stability of nuclei
• IV Radionuclides
• 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