In february 2001, serious accidental overexposures involving patients who were undergoing post-operative radiotherapy occurred in Poland. The government of Poland requested assistance from the IAEA under the terms of the Convention on assistance in the Case of a Nuclear. Accident or Radiological Emergency. The IAEA assembled and sent to Poland two teams of senior experts from France, Germany, S…
Proceedings contains material Summary; Opening session; Roles, functions and value of technical and scientific support organizations (Topical Session 1); Challenges faced by TSOs and TSO effectiveness (Topical Session 2); International cooperation, networking and application of IAEA safety standards (Topical Session 3); Perspectives on the evolving needs for technical and scientific support (To…
Distributed generation is not a new concept. Originally, all energy was produced and consumed at or near the process that required it. A fireplace, wood stove, and candle are all forms of "distributed" - small scale, demand-sited - energy. So is a pocket watch, alarm, or car battery. The key to today's energy revolution, however, involves turning the resource clock backwards (from large power p…
The naturally occurring radionuclide radon (222Rn), together with its radioactive progeny, has been widely used to study atmospheric processes and to test and validate comprehensive global chemical transport models. Being a noble gas, radon is not removed from the atmosphere by dry or wet deposition processes, nor does it become attached to aerosols, and so it is a good tracer for air mass move…