·
Chemistry
Biology Info Center at ETHZ
· Karen Timberlake's Chemodules ~ Instructional Tutorial on Nuclear Chemistry
· Nuclear Chemistry Online Tutorial - Phillip W. Crawford, Southeast Missouri State University
·
Nuclear
Chemistry in Our World - Online ChemCom Resources from the American
Chemical Society
· Nuclear Chemistry in the Community - NSF-supported curriculum development project at Kennesaw University called Chemcases.com developed by Dr. Frank Settle
·
Nuclear
Reactions (ChemWeb) Einstein's equation, nuclear binding energy,
radioactivity (radioactive particles and half-life), nuclear stability,
transmutation, nuclear reactors and fission.
·
ScienceNet
·
Steve Marsden’s Chemistry
Resources for Students and Teachers
·
The
ABC's of Nuclear Science
·
University
of Michigan
·
Uranium Information
Centre – Australia
· About Nuclear - A public information website developed by the American Nuclear Society
·
Ask a
Scientist - Physics: Ask
Dr. Neutrino Ask
a Chemist
·
Addison
Wesley Chemistry Resources Online
·
Atoms
(Science Net) Short, easy to
understand description of nucleus, proton, neutrons, and electrons.
·
Chain
Reactions (Science Net) Site
with multiple short links on many nuclear topics.
·
High
Energy Particle Glossary
·
Nuclear
Chemistry
(Internet Science Room) Click
on the links to learn about nuclear weapons that have been used in war and the
nuclear accidents at Chernobyl and Three-Mile Island.
·
Radiation
and Reactivity (University of Michigan)
This is a self paced lesson on the basics of radiation and radioactivity.
It was developed by the University of Michigan's Student Chapter of the
Health Physics Society.
·
Radioactive
materials (Science Net) Short,
easy to understand overview of radioactive particles (alpha and beta) and gamma
rays. Click on helium atom link for an good explanation of alpha decay.
·
Radioactivity
(Berkeley National Laboratory) Explains
radiation and the three different types: alpha, beta, and gamma. Scroll up for
good reviews on the structure of an atom and isotopes.
·
Radioactivity
(K. Drews) A very simple,
easy to understand explanation of radioactivity.
· Radioactivity and Nuclear Processes - (University of Akron) Online tutorial of basic concepts.
·
Stanford
Linear Accelator (McDunn)
·
The
Ten Types of Nuclear Energy**Community Science Action Guides - The
Secret Lives of Energy ~ The Energy Story - Lots of animations and explanations
with links to videos and more resources
·
Neutron-to-Proton
Ratio
(K. Drews)
·
What is Uranium?
(Uranium Information Centre, Melbourne, Australia)
Colorful graphics and many facts about uranium including: the uranium
atom, uranium fission, uranium ore to reactor fuel, the world's nuclear power
reactors, uranium mines and how uranium and other radioactive isotopes are used
in nuclear reactors, medicine, agriculture, the preservation of food, weapons,
and in both industry and the household.
·
Half-life
(Berkeley National Laboratory)
·
Half-Life
(Internet Science Room) In
addition to half-lifes also learn how to predict how radioactive an isotope is
by looking at your periodic table.
·
Half-life
(Science Net) Short, easy to
understand explanation of half-life.
·
Short Primer on Radioactive
Decay
·
Virtual Dating
(Geology Labs OnLine)
Click on Virtual Dating Radiocarbon (Carbon-1d) to go through an interactive
series of questions on transmutation, half-life using the C-14 decay curve, and
test the accuracy of the C-14 dating method by comparing C-14 results with tree
ring results. For a quick overview of the activity click on Virtual Dating Demo.
·
Use a
simple Carbon-14 dating
calculator to convert the percent of C-14 in a sample to years of age and
vise versa.
·
Fission
vs. Fusion (Fordham Prep)
·
Fission
and Fusion
- University of Texas as Austin - Excellent Website developed for instruction
with real life applications animated gifs and even a short video explanation of
fusion
·
Fusion
Basics (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
Everything you wanted to know about nuclear fusion explained with
colorful diagrams.
·
Fusion
Slide Show: Creating A Star on Earth (General Atomics) Learn about fusion and current research into how to use
fusion to generate power while watching this slide
show.
·
Atom
Splitting (Science Net) Short,
easy to understand explanation of fission.
·
Reactions:
Fusion and Fision (Berkely National Laboratory) Includes an interesting
explanation of how stars begin as a fusion reaction and can become either the
element iron or a supernova.
· What is Fusion? (General Atomic Fusion Group )
·
Alpha
and Beta Emission (K. Drews)
·
Gamma
Emission and Mass Defect (K. Drews)
·
Nuclear
equations simplified (Fordham Prep)
·
Transmutation
(Internet Science Room) - Get practice balancing nuclear equations.
·
Writing
Alpha and Beta Decay Equations (John Park) - Easy to understand with lots of
diagrams. Includes practice equations and answers.
·
Carbon 14 Dating (Science
Net) (Radiocarbon
WEB info)
·
Chernobyl
(World Nuclear Association) - Learn about the accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl
nuclear power plant
·
Chornobyl
and the Surrounding Area – University of Michigan
·
Cosmic
Rays – What Are
Cosmic Rays? - (Leeds University, UK)
·
Estimate Your Annual Radiation
Dose
(University of Michigan Student Chapter of the Health Physics Society)
Answer a series of simple questions to find out how much radiation you are
exposed to in a year.
·
Fusion Slide
Show: Creating A Star on Earth (General Atomics) - Learn about fusion and current
research into how to use fusion to generate power while watching this slide
show.
·
Geiger
Counters
(Science Net)
·
Ionization
smoke detectors
- How stuff works website
· Nuclear Reactors (ChemWeb) - Easy to understand: parts of fission reactor (fuel rods, control rods, moderators, shielding/containment, coolant); nuclear fission and fusion; enrichment and breeder reactors.
· Nuclear power plant demonstration A neat site that let's you try to run a plant and stop a melt down. Don't spend all of your time at this site.
·
Nuclear Reactions and Their Applications
Article
Chemical and Engineering News, September 14, 1998, Page 10, Lead in Peat Bog
tells Historic Tales , written by Maureen Rouhi.
· Nuclear Power - Solcomhouse Types of Nuclear Reactors and locations
·
Radiation
Dose Chart
(American Nuclear Society) (pdf file)
· Radioactivity in nuclear medicine This site gives lots of information especially on medical uses.
· Storage
of Nuclear Waste Issues
· The
First 50 Years of Radiation Protection (University of Michigan)
·
Radiation
Around Us
– University of Michigan
·
Radiation in Nature: the
Okla Reactor
– [American Nuclear Society] [Curtin
University]
·
Somebody
said that everything is radioactive. Surely it can't be?
(Science Net) - Explains that weak radiation is all around us, carbon-14, and
chart with radiation from coffee, bread, granite and other everyday items.
·
What
you Need to Know About Radiation: to protect
yourself, to protect your family, to make reasonable social and political
choices by Lauriston S. Taylor Online Textbook © 1990, 1996
·
Basis
Terms to
accompany the Online Text Above
·
A
Brief Chronology of Radiation and Protection
by J. Ellsworth Weaver III 1994,1995
· A Review of Chadwick's paper on discovery of neutron places student in the room with Nobel work.
·
Discovery
of a
b
and g
Particles
Purdue University
·
Henri
Becquerel:
two brief reports about radioactivity read to the French Academy of Sciences one
week apart in 1896. In between the two reports, Becquerel realized that he was
not dealing with ordinary phosphorescence! (Link to a biographical
sketch of Becquerel and view a picture of a
photographic plate from which he made his discovery.
·
Selected
Classic Papers on the History of Chemistry (scroll down for Nuclear
Chemistry)
Online
Study Cards for Nuclear Chemistry:
Print these online Study Cards for good
basic information regarding Nuclear Chemistry:
·
Study Cards:
GC26-Nuclear Chemistry (Paul Groves) - Topics
included are: The People, Terms, Types of Radiation, Half-Life, Nuclear
Equations, Stabilizing Unstable Nuclei, Uses of Radioactivity, Fission and
Fusion, Energy -Mass Conversion, What Happens During Beta and Positron Decay.
