Content of the lecture
The lecture deals with the occurrence of natural and artificial radionuclides in the environment, describes the pathways of radioactive substances through the environment to humans and gives an assessment of the resulting radiation exposure and the risks associated with it. The following topics are dealt with in detail: radiation exposure resulting from the nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the following decades of nuclear weapon testing, in nuclear accidents: Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Kystym, criticality accidents, lost sources (Goiania) . Consequences of uranium mining for workers and environment. Exposure of patients to radium and radon therapy.
Credit points: 2
Semster hours per week: 2
Place: 4134, room 101, Seminarraum Biophysik, Herrenhäuser Straße 2
Start: Summer semester, monday 10:15 a.m.
Lecturer: Prof. Walther
Basic literature
| Richard Rhodes | The making of the Atomic Bomb |
| Warner, Kirchmann | Nuclear Test Explosions |
| Mosey - International Special Publications (2006) | Reactor Accidents Nuclear Engineering |
| Shaw - Elsevier, Amsterdam (2007) | Radioactivity in the terrestrial environment |
| Eisenbud | Environmental Radioactivity |
| David Atwood - Wiley and Sons, 2010 | Radionuclides in the Environment |
Before attending this course you should have completed "Physics IV A: nuclei, particles" and "Radiation Protection and Radioecology".
