SUBJECT

Introduction into nuclear environmental protection

lecture

master

Faculty of Science

Environmental Science MSc

2

Semesters 1-4

Autumn/Spring semester

Interaction between radiation and matter. Dose concepts, principles of dosimetry and types of dosimeters. Biological effects of radiation. Basic principles of radiation protection.Determination of internal and external dose. Sources of natural and artifical radiation dose. The nuclear fuel cycle and the operation principles of nuclear reactors. Dynamic behavior of nuclear reactors, the problems of controlling the chain reaction, nuclear accidents. Nuclear waste storage and disposal. Safety of the nuclear energy production, trends in inceasing safety and solving nuclear waste problem in the future. Methods and current practice in nuclear environmental control.

Compulsory:

• Attila Vértes, István Kiss: Nuclear Chemistry, AkadémiaiKiadó,Budapest, 1987

Suggested:

• Attila Vértes, Sándor Nagy, ZoltánKlencsár: Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry, Kluwer, Amsterdam, 2003
• Joseph Magill, Jean Galy: Radioactivity, Radionuclides, Radiation, Springer, Berlin, 2005
• G. Choppin, J.O.Liljenzin, J.Rydberg, Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002