Articles tagged as “Environmental radioactivity outdoor”
Training Future Engineers to Be Ghostbusters: Hunting for the Spectral Environmental Radioactivity
Although environmental radioactivity is all around us, the collective public imagination often associates a negative feeling to this natural phenomenon. To increase the familiarity with this phenomenon we have designed, implemented, and tested an interdisciplinary educational activity for pre-collegiate students in which nuclear engineering and computer science are ancillary to the comprehension of basic physics concepts.