Course: Radiation protection and dosimetry

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Course title Radiation protection and dosimetry
Course code URT/YRODZ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Zemanová Eva, Ing. Ph.D., MBA
Course content
Lectures (2 lessons): 1. Basic legal regulations and other acts in the field of radiation protection valid in the Czech Republic, regulations of the European Union and Euratom and the International Atomic Energy Agency, international recommendations, systematic supervision of RO, registration of IR sources, quantities, parameters and facts important from the RO point of view, requirements for permits for activities in exposure situations, notification, registration, documentation for permitted activities submitted to the SÚJB. 2.-3. Principles of radiation protection, justification, optimization, limitation of doses and security of sources, classification of workplaces, classification of radiation workers, sources of ionizing radiation, definition of monitored and controlled band, personal radiation cards and conditions of their use. 4.-5. Fundamentals of atomic and nuclear physics, types of radiation, shielding, interaction of IR with matter in general and with living matter, deterministic (tissue reactions), stochastic effects, assessment of health consequences, health damage. Quantities used in radiation protection to assess risks. 6-7 RO during medical and veterinary irradiation. The method of patient protection, the principle of optimization and its application in practice, diagnostic reference levels, dose optimization limits, the effect of technical parameters of the source on the patient dose, procedures for determining the doses of patients and workers, national radiological standards. Radiological event and its classification. 8.- 9 RO in industry, education and research. Ways of detection and measurement methods of IS, quantities and units used in dosimetry. 10. Workplace monitoring, personal monitoring, discharge monitoring, surroundings, monitoring levels. Monitoring programme. 11. Radioactive substance, closed and open radionuclide source, criteria for exemption of IS sources from regulation, transport, transfer, disposal of IS sources, release of radionuclides into the environment, release levels, exemption levels. 12. IZ as a risk factor of working conditions, health care system for occupationally exposed persons (occupational medical services), for persons exposed during radiation emergencies, representative person. 13. Radiation emergencies, types of contamination, decontamination procedures. 14. Preparedness for response and response to a radiation emergency, internal emergency plan, external emergency plan, National Radiation Emergency Plan, limiting exposure, methods of protection against ionizing radiation. Seminars (2 lessons): 1. SÚJB recommendations, International recommendations, IAEA, practical introduction online. 2. The issue of low-dose risk. 3. Mammography screening, dose assessment, consideration of risks from low dose radiation. 4. Calculation of doses and evaluation of the effects of IZ on the child's fetus. 5. Radiological events in our country and in the world, SAFRAD, SAFRON - registry of the RÚ. 6. Radiation accident in the world. 7. Health consequences of the Chernobyl accident: Deterministic and stochastic effects. 8. Monitoring of ŽP in the Czech Republic, radiation monitoring network (RMS), familiarization with MONRAS online data. 9. Methods of decontamination in Fukushima Prefecture after the nuclear accident, the situation today. 10. Radiation exposure of personnel at NPP vs. radiation exposure of medical radiation workers. 11. Excursion in the SÚRO dosimetric laboratories, České Budějovice branch. 12. Waste from the NPP fuel cycle, what about spent fuel, examples in the world, deep storage. 13. New means of RO optimization using artificial intelligence, modelling emergency radiation situations using SW - impact prediction. 14. Radon programme.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes

Knowledge required to obtain a special professional qualification for performing "systematic supervision of RO" (the exam is taken at the SÚJB), the ability to generally assess the risks associated with radiation, evaluate quantities and use IZ detection methods, the ability to inform the lay and professional public about the method of preparedness for response to a radiation emergency.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Seminar work, written test
Recommended literature
  • SÚJB: https://www.sujb.cz/radiacni-ochrana/.
  • SÚRO: https://www.suro.cz/cz/radiacni-ochrana.
  • UNEP IONIZUJÍCÍ ZÁŘENÍ. ÚČINKY a ZDROJE.
  • FILIPOVÁ, A. a kol. Radiační ochrana při radiační mimořádné události.
  • KLENER, V., a kol. Principy a praxe radiační ochrany.
  • PODZIMEK, František. Radiologická fyzika. Aplikace ionizujícího záření.
  • Vojtěch Ullmann. http://astronuklfyzika.cz/.
  • ZAHRADNÍČEK, Radim. Důsledky vzniku radiačních, chemických a biologických událostí.


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