After successful completion of the course, students are able to

1.) describe the behaviour of radionuclides in ecological systems, 

2.) apply qualitatevly and quantitativly transport models,

3.) estimate radiation exposure due to radioavtive sources,

4.) calculate specific application cases,

5.) evaluate the emission of radioactive substances into the environment based on specific cases e.g. Chernobyl, Fukushima, indoor radon and finaly

6.) rank radiation caused health risks.    

Basics and methods for calculations and measuring techniques to assess population exposure from ionizing radiation

terrestrial and cosmic radaition, release of radiaactive material in water bodies and the atmosphere,

examples of previous releases

Lecture and discussion of basics, case studies, research and evaluation of literature

Obligatory preliminary discussion: Th 05/10/2023 17:00, Sem.R. DA grün 05

Written examination based on a list of questions (32 questions), 3 questions, 1 hour duration

OR

elaboration, presentation and discussion of a case study and oral exam

Lecture presentations and examination questions are available (download via TISS).