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Fit for Technical Radiation Protection

Jan-Willem Vahlbruch Hans-Gerrit Vogt

150 Questions for Safe Use of Sources of Ionized Radiation

Become Proficient at Technical Radiation Protection – with 150 Test Questions! The text uses 150 practical problems to impart basic knowledge of radioactivity and technical radiation protection. The book is written for radiation protection officers, technicians that are involved in fabrication, maintenance and repair of X-ray equipment and particle accelerators, and students of the subjects environmental, radiation, health and occupational safety. It is an ideal companion of “Fundamentals of Practical Radiation Safety”, but the work can stand on its own.

Test questions with increasing difficulty follow a brief theoretical digest at the start of each chapter. The problems contain gapped texts, crossword puzzles, math problems, figures, tables and other didactic items.

 

  • The following subjects are covered:
  • Math fundamentals: calculating with percentages, magnitudes, log graphics
  • Physical fundamentals: radioactive substances, kinds of radiation, terms of dosage
  • Biological radiation effects, human exposure to radiation
  • Practical radiation protection using distance, shielding and time of exposure
  • Calculation of exposition of radiation for gamma-, beta-, neutron- and X-rays
  • Radiation protection metrology: function and design of measuring devices, statistical measurement uncertainty
  • Radiation protection administration: basic legal terms, calculations.

 

The book contains the solution of all problems with references to additional resources for download from the Internet. This way the reader can gauge whether the teaching objective has been reached. A small formulary rounds out the content.

 

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Published 2019-06-01 by Hanser , ISBN: 9783446452107

Main content page count: 200 Pages

ISBN: 9783446452107