NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

Nuclear radiation (sources, doses and units, protection, biological shield, contamination and decontamination). Radiation detectors (basic characteristics, types, radiation spectroscopy, counting statistics and errors). Nuclear instrumentation (linear amplifiers, amplitude analyzers, counters, time selectors, multichannel analyzers). Nuclear radiation application. Processes in nuclear reactors (fission, critical reactor dimensions, nuclear fuel conversion, neutron energy distribution). Nuclear reactor theory (critical equation, statistical parameters, subcritical reactor). Fusion (thermonuclear reactions, ignition and maintaining conditions, possible solutions for thermonuclear reactors). Nuclear explosions.