Radioactivity teaching: Environmental consequences of the radiological accident in Goiânia (Brazil)

Autor:	Emico Okuno, P. R. S. Gomes, N. K. Umisedo, E. L. N. Lima, M. S. Santos, A. Facure, Elisabeth Mateus Yoshimura, J. A. P. Brage, Roberto Meigikos dos Anjos
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Physics medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Accident prevention General Physics and Astronomy Gamma ray spectra Teaching program School teachers Radiological weapon medicine Medical physics Radiation protection business Accident (philosophy) Gamma ray spectrometry
Zdroj:	American Journal of Physics. 69:377-381
ISSN:	1943-2909 0002-9505
Popis:	Ionizing radiation and its effects on human beings, radiation protection, and radiological accident prevention are topics usually not included in the physics courses at the Brazilian universities. As a consequence, high school teachers are not able to enlighten their students when radiological or nuclear accidents occur. This paper presents a teaching program on ionizing radiation physics, to be applied to undergraduate physics students and to physics high school teachers. It is based on the environmental consequences of the 1987 radiological accident in Goiânia. This program was applied to two undergraduate physics students, in 1999, at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. Results of the gamma ray spectrometry measurements of samples collected in Goiânia by the students are presented.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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