SUBJECT

Radiation Protection

lecture

Master

Faculty of Science

Chemistry MSc

2

Semesters 1-4

Autumn/Spring semester

Purpose and subject of radiation protection. Dose concepts. Hazardous effect of ionizing radiation on humans. Natural and artifical sources of dose on large populations. Basic principles of radiation protection according to the guidelines of ICRP-60 and IBSS. Methods of dosimetry in controlling the dose of personnel. Methods in controlling radio-emission into natural waters and the atmosphere. Principles of protection against sealed and open radioactive sources. Internal dose. Classification of nuclear waste and waste disposal. Main methods of nuclear environmental control. Law on the application of nuclear energy in Hungary (1996. CXVI. ). Ministerial Decree on the rules and regulations in radiation protection in Hungary (16/2000 /VI.8, EüM).

Compulsory:

• Attila Vértes, István Kiss: Nuclear Chemistry: Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1987

Suggested:

• Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry, ed. A. Vértes, S. Nagy, Z. Klencsár, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 relevant chapters

• Joseph Magill, Jean Galy: Radioactivity, Radionuclides, Radiation, Springer, Berlin, 2005

• G. Choppin, J.O.Liljenzin, J.Rydberg, Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002