Radioactivity Fundamentals

In Radioactivity Fundamentals, you'll learn ...

• Key words and their meaning
• People important in the discovery and development of radioactivity
• How radioactivity is produced and where it is found naturally
• Types of emissions in radioactive transformation

Overview

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Credit: 3 CPD

Length: 23 pages

With the increased interest in the application of nuclear power in electric power generation and the associated engineering, a review of the principles of radioactivity is important. There have been changes in the units and measurement of radioactivity in the past 30 years.

This course is intended to be a review of the fundamentals of radioactivity; what it is, where it is found, what its characteristics are, how it is measured, and what its effects and its uses are. For those needing to go deeper into aspects of radioactivity, the course will serve as an introduction to such topics as calculations of decay constants and half-lives and health physics.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Key words and their meaning
• People important in the discovery and development of radioactivity
• How radioactivity is produced and where it is found naturally
• Types of emissions in radioactive transformation
• Fundamental mathematics of radioactive decay
• Units and measurement of radioactivity
• Radiation dose pathways and effects
• Uses of radioactive products

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 21 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.