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Index
A-bomb 38
alchemist 11
alpha particle 8, 42
alpha radiation 8, 9 aluminium 9
antimony-133 29
argon 11
atom 4,7
atomic bomb 38, 39
atomic number 7, 44, 47 atomic weight (mass) 7, 44, 47
background radiation 14–15 barium-142 28
basalt 18
becquerel 13, 22 Becquerel, Antoine Henri beta particle 8
beta radiation 8, 9 Big Bang 7 breeder reactor 35
Cerenkov radiation cesium-137 39
Chernobyl 37
cobalt-60 17,27,43 concrete 9,35
control rods 34, 35 cosmic radiation 10, 14, 15 curie 13,22
gamma radiation 8, 9, 15, 42 gamma rays 8
geiger counter (Geiger–Müller
radiation 8, 42, 43
radiation sickness 42
radiation therapy 43
radioactive decay 16
radioactive elements 4, 6, 26–27 radioactive tracers 20–21 radioactivity 5,7,8–9 radioisotopes 17
radium 5, 15, 17, 22–23, 36 radon 14, 23
rem (roentgen equivalent in
man) 43
reprocessed uranium billet 45 reprocessing, uranium 25 Rutherford,Ernest 9
smoke detectors 15 sodium, radioactive 20 stars 31
strontium-90 27, 39, 42 strontium-94 29
Sun 30 supernova 31
technetium 20
thoron 14
Three Mile Island 36 transmutation 10 tritium 8,17,21,30,38
U 44
uranium 24–25,34,38,44 uranium-235 28,29 uranium-238 11,17 uranium fission 28–29 uranium oxide 34
World War II 38
X-rays 8,14,15,36 xenon 20 xenon-140 29
cadmium 34
cancer 42
carbon 7
carbon dating
carbon dioxide, radioactive carbon-12 7
18 carbon-14 7,10,16,17,19
Mendeleev, Dmitry Ivanovich metal 44
46
Curie, Marie and Pierre 5, 22, 23
deuterium 30,38 deuterium–tritium fusion 30
electron 6, 7, 8
element 4
elements, origin of 7 enriched uranium 25, 33 equations 48–49
fallout, nuclear 39 fast reactor core 33 Fermi,Enrico 33 film badge 12 fission 28–29,34 fission bomb 38 fuel element 26, 44 fuel rod 5, 33, 34, 35 fusion 30–31
fusion bomb 38
36–37
45
5, 12, 22
14
tube) 12, 13, 21 Geiger, Hans 12
granite 18, 23
half-life 16–17,18 helium 25, 30, 42
high level waste 40 Hiroshima 38 hydrogen 30,38 hydrogen-3 (tritium) 17 hydrogen bomb 21
igneous rocks 18 intermediate level waste iodine-131 43
ion 12
ionisation 12
irradiation 42–43 isotope 4,7
krypton-92 28
lead 9, 10, 11 leukaemia 23, 27 low level waste 41
40
Nagasaki 38,39 neutron 7,8,28 neutron radiation niobium-101 29 nitrogen 10
nuclear accidents nuclear energy (nuclear
power) 32–33 nuclear power station 32
nuclear reactions 4, 7 nuclear reactors 34–35 nuclear waste 40 nuclear weapons 38 nucleus 4, 6, 7, 8
PeriodicTable 46–47 Pete Bog 18 pitchblende 22, 24 plutonium 26,34,35,38 pollution 20
polonium 23 polonium-210 17 potassium-40 11 proton 7, 8
8, 9
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