Course Title:   Radiation Protection and Shielding
Course Number:  406
Professor: Ronald E. Pevey, Ph.D., P.E., M.B.A.
Nuclear Engineering Department
214 Pasqua Engineering Building
Ph: 423-974-7573 Fax: 423-974-0668
Email: rpevey@utk.edu

Course Description:

This course covers the basic concepts and techniques of the field of radiation protection. The principal emphasis will be on giving students a grounding in the basic principles of  the field and practice in radiation shielding computer methods in common use.

Required Text: Shultis, J.K.; and Faw, R.E., Radiation Shielding, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996.

Course Objectives:
By taking this course, the student should gain a basic understanding of:

• Basic concepts of radiation protection
• Basic principles interaction of neutral particles (neutron and photon) with matter
• Common sources of neutron and photon radiation
• Basic concepts of dosimetric response functions
• Hand calculation for dose rates from simple geometric configurations of sources and shielding
• Physical and numerical approximations inherent in the most commonly used computer codes in the field.
• Practice in using common shielding tools.

• Test #1        25%
• Test #2        25%
• Final exam   25%
• Homework  25%

Class preparation: To prepare for each class, you should:

• Do the homework for the day.  It is due at the beginning of class of the day it is listed in the syllabus and will be based on previous lectures.
• Read the class reading assignment from the syllabus
• If the reading assignment is a hyperlink, answer the questions in an e-mail to me by 8:00 a.m. day of class.
• Review the LECTURE NOTES for the upcoming class, doing any exercises that are included.
• Review your notes from previous classes.

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