258 Index
Rest mass 28, 186
– of a proton 24
– of an electron 24
Rest-mass energy 23
Rhodes, C. K. 94
Risk factor 186
roentgen (R) 186
Roentgen’s X-ray 128
Roman cement 156
Roman nail 156
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad 5
Rose 81
rp process 16
Rubidium-strontium dating 107, 108
Rutherford 5, 6, 8, 11, 53, 55, 89, 110,
111, 125
Rutherford’s planetary model of the atom 6
Rutherford, Ernest 43
Rydberg constant 9
s-process (slow process) 15, 186
Sandulescu, A. 81, 82
Schrödinger 12, 13
– equation 13
Scientific atomism 3
Screwworm flies 125
Secular equilibrium 50, 51
Seelmann-Eggebert, W. 40, 41
Segr`e, E. 90
Shell model of the nucleus 186
Shihoro potato irradiation facility 135
Shipping regulations 153
SI units 19, 186
Sievert (Sv) 140, 141, 143, 150, 186, 190
Silicon 15
SIMS 115
SINQ 129, 131
SIRIUS 86
SIT (sterile insects technique) 125
Skin 141
SNAP 126, 135, 186
Soddy, Frederic 12, 43, 110, 111
Solar
– flares 150
– system 17, 108
– wind 150
Sommerfeld 10
Source terms 47
Spallation 16, 56, 99
– nuclear reactions 99
– sources 129
Spalled 99
Special beta-decay processes 59, 61, 79
Special form 154
Speed of light 189
Spent fuel 187
Spin 11, 30
– quantum number 30
Spontaneous emission 187
Spontaneous fission (SF) 59, 61, 73, 74,
81, 82
Spontaneously fissioning nuclides 76
Springs of Misasa 148
Stability line 16
Stable isotopes 32
Standard model 12, 182
Standing waves 12
Stellar burning 17
Sterile insects technique (SIT) 125
Sterilisation 134
Stochastic effects 139, 187
Stochastic mutation 133
Stomach 141
Stoney, G. J. 4
STP 187
Strasbourg
– Colour Scheme 231
– nuclide chart 32–34
Strassmann 73
Strong interaction 187
Sublimation temperature 194
Sulphur 17
Superheavy elements 91
Supernova 17, 108, 109
– remnants 108
Supernovae type II 187
Sv 190
Sv/s 190
Swipes 115
Synthesis of the elements 15
Syst`eme International d’Unit´es 19
Table of atomic masses 197–227
Table of isotopes 38
Table of the elements 191–193
Tag techniques 126
Tagged radionuclide tracers 127
Technetium 17
Th232 236
Thales 1, 2
Therapeutic baths 148
Therapeutic effects 148