Airborne transport is responsible for the long-range spreading of pollutants via atmospheric pathways. A fission product such as 137Cs, serves as an effective tracer for studying the distribution of pollutants and its mechanisms through the atmosphere. Its propensity to be airborne transported on aerosols, combined with its half-life of 30 years, enables assessment over a timescale spanning...
ISIB, the technical department of HE2B, is organizing a BIP in Brussels (Belgium) on the assessment of radioactivity and environmental radiological control in Belgium. A face-to-face training will follow an online pretraining.
The target audience is Bachelor students (3rd year) and Master students. 3 ECTS are delivered after evaluation of the learning outcomes.
The date of the face-to-face...
Our previous 3 Erasmus+ SPs have revealed that blended activities improve the intensive programs we offer to our students and that softs skills are key competences for nuclear engineers in a sustainable future.
Integrating these aspects however asked a lot of efforts of the academic and technical staff to cope and integrate it in the practical activities. But it also offered new...
In the Varian environment (TrueBeam linear accelerator and Eclipse treatment planning system, Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, USA), beam data acquisition for radiation fields smaller than 3 cm x 3 cm involves measurements of long and narrow rectangular fields such as 1 cm x 40 cm. The beams must be collimated by jaws with fully retracted MLC (multileaf collimator). Output factors (OF) of...
The achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SGD) defined in 2015 by the United Nations, is nowadays an issue of great concern for Governments an International Organizations and affect all aspects of human activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is fully involved SDGs achievement. Thus, in the IAEA’s newsletter of March 2016, a review of how Nuclear Radiation Protection...
Uranium waste rock dumps contain residual uranium mineralization, resulting in increased concentrations of radon within the dump body. Depending on the structure of the stored material as well as on the surface properties and environmental parameters, radon is released is from the waste rock dump body and the radon concentration in vicinity of the dump increases.
Areas of release vary...
As part of the ongoing "Reference sites for aerial unmanned radiometric survey" project, the CTU in Prague is developing data processing and analysis methods for data from gamma spectrometric scintillation detectors carried by an unmanned aerial system. The acquired data and developed methods shall improve calibration techniques for spectrometers and help characterize the chosen reference...
Over the last fifteen years, the staff and students of the Department of Dosimetry have participated in a number of experiments in the field of High Energy Physics. Individual experiments will be presented here and our activities will be mentioned.
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive noble gas emitted from rocks containing uranium. This study aimed to analyse the absorption capacity of this gas in aromatic plants exposed to an aerosol-rich radon environment. Additionally, it sought to determine the presence of radionuclides from the decay chain of 238U or 232Th. Aromatic plants, commonly used in both cuisine and interior...
The Nuclear Technological Centre (NuTeC) is a research group of Hasselt University (UHasselt) and connected to the master program in Nuclear Technology at the Faculty of Engineering Technology. The research group NuTeC is integrated in the larger research institute the Centre for Environmental Sciences (CMK).
This research group operates at the intersection of several crucial areas in the...
The exchange of air between the indoor and outdoor atmosphere is a key physical process that affects, among other things, the behaviour of all types of aerosols and gaseous contaminants, including radon/ thoron and their decay products in buildings, and mediates their transfer from indoor to outdoor air and vice versa. Commonly used technique of tracer gases was implemented into SURO’s...
