Danijela Joksimovic
(Institute of Marine Biology)
Anthropogenic seawater pollution with heavy metals has significantly increased in past decades. These pollutants aim to integrate in bottom sediments, making sediments in ecosystems in areas with constant inflow of heavy metals highly contaminated.
Currently, in the country and abroad, numerous investigations focused on analysis of environmental protection and improvement, particularly water...
M.V. Frontasyeva
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
For the purpose of this course, we define nuclear analytical techniques (NATs) as those that use nuclear reactions, radioactive decay, or nuclear instrumentation to investigate properties of matter. This definition extends from the well-established radiochemistry, neutron activation analysis (NAA), and prompt-gamma activation analysis (PGAA) to advanced methods at the limits of science and...
Antoaneta Ene
(Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Faculty of Sciences and Environment, Department of Chemistry, Physics and Environment)
The distribution of elements in the environment, their concentration and dynamics can be seriously affected by human activities. Environmental pollution occurs through the introduction of various substances in soil, water and atmosphere by anthropogenic activities. Often this pollution produces imbalances in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, threatening the health of living beings. The...
Paweł Olko
(Division of Applied Physics, Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland)
The basic factor which determines the success of cancer radiotherapy is to deliver the highest possible dose of ionizing radiation (as recommended by the physician) to the tumour volume while sparing the neighbouring critical organs and healthy tissues. Accelerated protons are particularly useful in cancer treatment because of the phenomenon of the Bragg peak, i.e. a rapid increase of energy...
Alexandra Ioannidou
(Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Physics Division Physics Department Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Introduction to natural and artificial radionuclide sources in the atmosphere Cosmogenic radionuclides (eg 7Be, 22Na...) and 210Pb from terrestrial origin and their use in global atmospheric models Radioactive aerosols and their diameter, AMAD value, penetration to the lugs, dose assessments Instruments for collecting radioactive nuclides in the atmosphere, collecting substrates, instruments...
Alexandr Bugai
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
JINR accelerators provide extensive capacity for multifaceted radiobiological research concerning basic problems of radiation genetics, molecular radiobiology, and radiation physiology, as well as a wide spectrum of practical issues, the most challenging ones being space radiobiology with special reference to manned interplanetary missions and the use of charged particles for the treatment of...
Prof.
L Petric
(University of the Western Cape)
Among the methods of synthesis of nanostructures in solids currently under development, exhibiting various morphologies and properties, a special place is devoted to so-called nuclear technologies, which include the study of the processes of formation and of the applications of ion (nuclear) tracks. The swift heavy ion technique is based on the unique phenomenon whereby high-energy heavy ions...
Alexander Nechaev
(Center of Applied Nuclear Physics, Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR)
The overwhelming majority of modern productions (from micro- electronics and so-called “high technologies” to biotechnology and medicine) cannot function without the use of membrane technologies which are necessary for obtaining pure liquid and gaseous materials and also for purification and concentration of different solutions and suspensions. The first track etched membranes or so called...
Michael. P. R. Waligórski
(Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland & The Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Centre of Oncology, Kraków Division, Kraków, Poland)
An energetic charged particle (such as a proton or heavier ion) travelling through an absorber, (such as nuclear emulsion) leaves a track of energy deposition events (detected, e.g., by developed grains in the emulsion). Using Poisson statistics of energy deposition in the target (e.g. grain) for its activation, of the radial distribution of delta-ray dose and of action cross section, the...
