University Institute University of Pavia

University Institute University of Pavia

for Advanced Studies

European School of Advanced Studies

on

Nuclear and Ionising Radiation Technology

8th International Master Course

on

Industrial Applications of the Ionising Radiations

Radioisotopes Techniques , Environmental Radiochemistry,

Radioprotection, Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities

Academic year 2005-2006

ORGANIZED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENGY

(IAEA, VIENNA)

The institutional aims of the School

The contribution of nuclear and radiation science and technology to human welfare and socio-economic development and their impact on almost every sphere of human activity are widely recognized. The high energy ‘Ionising’ radiations in particular have important practical applications stemming from their chemical and biological effects. Their use in improving human health, in modification and synthesis of novel materials, in the agriculture and food industry, in waste treatment and recycling are finding increasing success with respect to conventional techniques. The same goes in the field of radiochemistry and nuclear chemistry where several special applications are gaining increasing attention as the use of sensitive nuclear methods for trace elements studies and dating, the synthesis and use of radio pharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine, environmental radioactivity control, radioprotection, decommissioning.

This wide interest to ‘non power’ nuclear activities have risen the need for high level professional nuclear and radiation education and training, not covered by traditional Nuclear Engineering University courses or by specialization Schools: this is the institutional aim of the European School of Advanced Studies on Nuclear and Ionising Radiations Technologies (TNRI) which has now arrived at its 8th academic year.

The organization and location of the School

The School is organized by the University Institute for Advanced Studies ( IUSS), which is an emanation of the University of Pavia and the Italian Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR), in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency of Vienna.

Pavia is a typical university town of about 70.000 inhabitants and 25.000 students located 15 miles south of Milan. Of roman origin and former capital town of the longobards kingdom, Pavia has a tradition of university teaching lasting 6 centuries since the date of its foundation in 1171 (the second oldest University in Italy after Bologna) and the unmatched characteristics of 17 university colleges at disposal of the students, two of which, the Ghislieri and Borromeo were founded in the 16th century.

The University of Pavia has also a tradition in nuclear education and research carried on at the Departments of Nuclear and Theoretical Physics and Chemistry. High level facilities are available mostly located within the Applied Nuclear Energy Laboratory (LENA), among which a research nuclear reactor Triga M II, 60-Co facilities, an X ray generators, a neutron source and a cyclotron for nuclear medicine applications (under installation). The local section of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) is involved in the important international projects on solar neutrino research as ATLAS and ICARUS. LENA and INFN have also become the reference national centres for BNCT research.

The didactic project of the School however greatly exceeds the potentiality offered by the University of Pavia since the major nuclear institutions and industries in Italy and Europe are invited to make available lecturers and training stages.

Professional Opportunities

The intensive theoretical course coupled with the training stages within external institutions and industries is suited to prepare expert in some of the major non power nuclear activities listed below:

· Industrial Radiation Processing using electron beam accelerators and gamma facilities

· Cyclotrone production of radioisotopes, synthesis of radiopharmaceuticals and their applications in nuclear medicine

· Radioactive waste treatment and Nuclear decommissioning. As in the past, training stages will be available in this field at SoGIN sites (the central site in Rome, the Nuclear power plants in Caorso, Trino Vercellese, Garigliano and Latina, the decommissioning site at ENEA-Casaccia, Rome) submitted to the approval by SoGIN itself

· Environmental radioactivity controls

·Applications of nuclear activation analysis to material science, medicine, environmental science, forensic chemistry, cultural heritage

· The profession of Qualified Expert: a module of the Master (about 100 hr) is dedicated to the state examination program for obtaining the 1st, 2nd and 3rd level patents. The stages at the end of the theoretical part of the course can be organized to fit the practical trainings required for the 3 patent levels.

Job opportunities can be found in companies dealing with nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste treatment, industries producing accelerators and other irradiation equipments, irradiation service centres, industries using radiation facilities in their production lines (crosslinking of electric cables, surface curing, semiconductor curing and ion implantation in microelectronics, industrial sterilization, etc.), public health institutions and hospitals using radiation facilities, national and regional agencies for the environmental protection ( APAT, ARPA), research centres, PET centres, pharmaceutical industries, companies operating in the field of production, calibration and quality control of nuclear instruments, research centres.

Didactic Plan

The first part of the Master consists of an intensive course of 400 h theoretical lectures and laboratories with the duration of 4 months; the theoretical course is followed by the training stages of 6 months within external institutions and industries. The stages have the crucial purpose of focusing the student’s experience to a specific professional activity. The overall course has the duration of one year.

The theoretical course is organised in 4 modules of about 100 h each: a) fundamental theory. b) the industrial applications of the ionising radiations, c) the applications of nuclear chemistry and radioisotopes techniques, d) program for Qualified Expert and nuclear decommissioning.

The official language of the course is English, as a consequence an adequate knowledge of this language ( at least scholastic) is necessary. A tutoring during and after the lectures will be available to help the understanding.

Examinations: a written test at the end of each of the 4 modules and the discussion of a thesis, based on the stage experience, in the final Master examination. A diplome of master on “Nuclear and Ionising Radiation Technologies” is granted to the student that has passed all the examinations.

THEORETICAL PART OF THE COURSE

FUNDAMENTAL THEORY (13 March– 7 April, 2006)

·Radiation Physics
·Radiation Chemistry
·Nuclear Chemistry and Radiochemistry
· Radiation Biology
·Radiation Dosimetry

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF IONISING RADIATION (10 April – 19 May, 2006)

·Gamma facilities, electron accelerators, industrial X ray irradiators, cyclotrons, nuclear reactors
·Industrial Radiation Dosimetry
·Applications to materials science and technology (polymer materials, biomaterials, composites, semiconductors,
Microlitography, gemstone enhancement)
·Applications to sterilisation processes in medical and pharmaceutical industry
·Food irradiation
·Application in agriculture (disinfestations, decontamination, anti sprouting)
·Application to environmental problems, waste treatment and recycling

RADIOCHEMISTRY AND RADIOISOTOPES TECHNIQUES (22 May – 16 June, 2006)

·Radioisotopes manipulation and counting techniques
·Instrumental and Chemical Activation Analysis ( INAA, CNAA)
·Applications of INAA and CNAA to material science, medicine, cultural heritage, environmental science
·Radioactive dating techniques
·Environmental Radiochemistry
·Radiopharmaceuticals: radioisotopes production; labelled drug synthesis and their applications in nuclear medicine; PET technology
·Radiotoxycology
·Forensic Radiochemistry
RADIOPROTECTION :PROGRAM FOR QUALIFIED EXPERTS (19 June–28 July 2004)
·The profession of ‘Qualified Expert’
·Legislation of Radioprotection
·Health problems related to workers exposure to radiations
·Dosimetry for radioprotection
·Natural radioactivity
·Radiological apparatus for diagnosis
·Primary and secondary radioprotection shields
·Program for radiological quality assurance
·Radioprotection in radioisotopes manipulation and transportation

RADIATION RISK vs OTHER TECHNOLOGICAL RISKS

·Elements of Comparative Risk Assessment

NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING
·The problems behind decommissioning
·Dealing with the regulator
·The organization and temporal action sequence in decommissioning
·The technology needed in decommissioning
·Characterization of wastes, implants and systems
·Dismantling and decontamination
·Waste packaging and transport
·Waste disposals
TRAINING STAGES
6 months, starting from August or September 2006, to be spent within external Institutions and Industries (see below)

SCIENTIFIC ORGANISATION OF THE SCHOOL

President of IUSS: prof. Roberto Schmid

Director of the School: Antonio Faucitano (Radiation Chemistry Laboratory, dept. of General Chemistry, University of Pavia)

Members of the Scientific Committee ( S.C.) and Lecturers

Bendiscioli Giorgio (Dept. of Nuclear and Theoretical Physics );

Buttafava Armando. (Radiation Chemistry Laboratory – Dept University of Pavia)

Danesi Pier Renato, Consultant of the President ( former Director of the IAEA Seibersdorf Laboratory and IAEA Consultant, Vienna );

Faucitano Antonio, Director of the School and Secretary of the S.C.

Gallorini Mario (Institute Colonnetti – CNR , Section of Pavia)

Meloni Sandro ( Radiochemistry Laboratory University of Pavia)

Orvini Edoardo ( Radiochemistry Laboratory - University of Pavia)

Piazzoli Adalberto, President of the Scientific Committee (Dept. of Nuclear and Theoretical Physics-University of Pavia)

Terrani Mario (Dep. of Nuclear Engineering-CESNEF, Polithecnic Institute of Milan)

Janev Yanko, Consultant of the President (Head of the INIS Program , IAEA Vienna).

Associated consultants of the Scientific Commettee and lecturers :

Baccaro Stefania (ENEA Casaccia, Roma);

Borio Andrea ( Director of the Applied Nuclear Energy Laboratory ( LENA) –University of Pavia);

Cucchi Giorgio(General Secretary of the National Association of Qualified Experts, ANPEQ, DISTAM, Univ. of Bologna),

Fuochi Pier Giorgio (ISOF-CNR, Bologna),

Giroletti E. (Dep of Nuclear and Theoretical Physics-University of Pavia)

Noviello L. ( SoGIN, Sede Centrale, Roma)

Osimani C.( President of the Italian Association for Radioprotection, AIRP, CCR Euratom Ispra)

Salvadori P. (Director CNR-Cyclotron Laboratory, Pisa)

Torre S. ( ST-Microelectronics, Catania)

Lecturers:

Antonelli A.( former APAT, Roma)

Allais E. ( ARPA, Pavia)

Altieri S. ( Dept of Nuclear and Theoretical Phisics, University of Pavia)

Balla J. ( IAEA, Vienna)

Battisti P. and Luciani A. ( ENEA-PRO-IRP Bologna)

Benetti P. ( Dept Chimica Generale-University of Pavia)

Bonardi M.( LASA, Univ. of Milan),

Brandone A. ( Radiochemistry Laboratory, dept General Chemistry University of Pavia)

Caramella Crespi V.(CNR-Pavia);

Carenza M.(CNR, Legnaro, Padova)

Caresana M. ( Nuclear Engineering Department-CESNEF, Polythecnic Institute of Milano)

Cazzoli S. ( President of ANPEQ)

De Bari A. ( Dept of Nuclear and Theoretical Phisics, University of Pavia)

De Crescenzo S. ( Helth Physics Laboratory, Ospedale Niguarda, Milano)

Delfanti R.( ENEA , S.Teresa di Lerici, La Spezia)

Delia R. ( ISPESL, Roma)

Delincee’ H. (Federal Institute for food Research, Karlsruhe, Germany)

Fantinato D. ( Helth Physics Laboratory - Fondazione S. Maugeri, Pavia)

Ganzerli Valentini M.T.( Dep. General Chemistry-Univ. of Pavia);

Iannelli G.(Hydraulic Engineering Dep. - Univ. of Pavia),

Karolczak S. (Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz, Poland),

Manera S.( LENA- University of Pavia);

Mayer J. (Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz, Poland),

Mazzi U.( Inorganic Chemistry dept. University of Padova);

Mehta K.( IAEA, Vienna);

Mladenov G.M.( Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sophia, Bulgaria);

Oddone M.( Dep. General Chemistry-Univ. of Pavia);

Onori S. ( Istituto Superiore di Sanita’, ISS, Roma)

Ottolenghi A.(Dep. Nuclear and Theorethical Physics- Univ.of Pavia)

Nano R. ( Dept. of Animal Biology-Univ. of Pavia

Paganini Fioratti M. ( APAT, Roma)

Pelliccioni M.( INFN, Frascati)

Pinelli T. ( Dept of Nuclear and Theoretica Phisics, University of Pavia)

Ruggeri G.( SoGIN, Sede Centrale, Roma)

Sabbioni E.( CCR Euratom Ispra);

Santinelli V. ( Direttore Unita’ di Chimica e Fisica Sanitaria Impianto Plutonio, c/o ENEA, Casaccia, Roma)

Sapora O. ( Istituto Superiore di Sanita’, ISS, Roma);

Scannicchio D.( Dept. of Nuclear and Theorethical Phisics – Univ. of Pavia);

Spadaro G.(Univ. of Palermo),

Testa C.( Applied Radiochemistry Laboratory, Chemistry dept. University of Urbino)

Tosi P.L. ( IEO, Milano)

Zonta A.(IRCS S.Matteo, Pavia)

Lecturers from the industry:

Adamo G. and Sini G. (Gammatom, Guanzate, Como),

Bonomi G.L. and Bonomi S. (Bioster, Seriate , Bergamo)

Galli D. ( SoGIN, Direttore Centrale Nucleare di Trino Vercellese , Vercelli)

Ghitti P.M.( Metallurgica Bresciana, Dello Brescia)

Guerzoni ( SoGIN, Direttore Centrale Nucleare di Caorso, Piacenza)

Irti S. and Baschieri V.(Gammarad, Ca’ dei Fabbri Bologna)

Messina A. and Arena G. ( ST-Microelectronics, Catania)

Negroni F. ( Research Laboratory Pirelli Bicocca, Milano )

Peruzzotti F. ( Research Laboratory Pirelli Bicocca, Milano )

Ruggeri G.( SoGIN, Sede Centrale, Roma)

Santinelli V. ( Direttore Unita’ di Chimica e Fisica Sanitaria Impianto Plutonio, c/o ENEA, Casaccia, Roma)

Stichelbaut F.( IBA, Louvain La-Neuve, Belgium)

Nesti S and A. Monti ( Tecnotessile, Prato)

INSTITUTIONS AND INDUSTRIES

COLLABORATING WITH THE SCHOOL

Although the location of the School is in Pavia, the Master TNRI has an international amplitude with an activity extended to the leading nuclear centres in Italy and Europe which have accepted to contribute lecturers and training stages:

Academic institutions

·  The Italian Universities of Pavia, Palermo, Pisa, Urbino, Bologna , Roma, Milano and

the Polytechnic Institutes of Torino and Milano

·  Technical University of Lodz (Polonia).

·  University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, U.K.)

Research centres, Agencies, Associations and Health Institutions

·  ANPEQ (National association of Qualified Experts)

·  Applied Nuclear Energy Laboratory (LENA, University of Pavia)

·  Bulgarian Academy of Science (Sofia,Bulgaria)

·  CCR Euratom (Ispra, Italy)

·  CNR Institute of Clinic Fisiologie, Ciclotrone laboratory (Pisa),

·  IENI-CNR Radiochemistry Laboratories in Pavia

·  ENEA (Casaccia, Roma)

·  ENEA-PRO-IRP (Bologna)

·  ENEA ( S. Teresa di Lerici ,La Spezia)

·  European Institute of Oncology (IEO, Milano)

·  Federal Institute for Nutrition Research (Karlsruhe, Germany)

·  IAEA (Vienna)

·  S. Maugeri Foundation ( Pavia)

·  Polyclinic Institute for Health Care and Research ( IRCSS), S. Matteo (Pavia)

·  S. Raffaele Foundation ( Milano)

·  Hospital Niguarda ( Milano)

·  IRSN (Cadarache, France)

·  ISOF-CNR ( Bologna)

·  Istituto Superiore di Sanita' (ISS, Roma)

·  National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN sections of Frascati, Legnaro, Milano , Pavia)

·  Ospedali Riuniti (Novara)

·  National Agency for the Protection of Environment and Territory (APAT, Roma)

·  Regional Agencies for Environmental Protection (ARPA-Pavia, ARPA-Milano and ARPA-Piacenza)

Industries:

·  BIOSTER (Seriate, Bergamo, IT)