11th. Course of the International School of Radiation Damage and Protection: OPERATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION FOR ACCELERATORS IN RESEARCH AND MEDICINE

14 May 2009, 08:00 → 20 May 2009, 12:00 Europe/Zurich

ERICE- SICILY, ITALY

Luisa Ulrici (CERN), Sayed Rokni (SLAC)

This Course is organised within the INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF RADIATION DAMAGE AND PROTECTION at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC) in Erice, Sicily. The objective of this course is to update the knowledge of both professionals and newcomers in the field of operational radiation protection around high energy physics accelerators, as well as accelerators used in medicine for therapy. This also includes environmental aspects, safety systems, training and radioactive waste management. The particularities of operational radiation protection at high-energy accelerators and hadron therapy facilities are the relatively large number of persons potentially radiation exposed, the spatial extension of the facilities, the energy ranges and complexity of the radiation fields and the large volume and wide variety of materials and radioactive waste. Emphasis is given to all aspects of practical implementation of the principles of operational radiation protection at such facilities. DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO:15 APRIL 2009

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Thursday, 14 May

08:30 → 09:00 Introduction to the course

Conveners: Hans-Georg Menzel (CERN, Switzerland), Helmut Schoenbacher (Switzerland), Vashek Vylet (JLAB, USA)

09:00 → 11:00 Operational Radiation Protection

11:00 → 11:15 break

11:15 → 13:15 Operational Radiation Protection in High Energy Physics Accelerators

13:15 → 14:30 lunch

14:30 → 16:15 Operational radiation Protection in Synchrotron Light and Free Electron Laser Facilities

16:15 → 16:30 break

16:30 → 18:15 Operational Radiation Protection Issues Specific to High Intensity Beams

18:15 → 19:00 Discussion on Operational Radiation Protection around accelerators in research

Friday, 15 May

08:30 → 10:15 Instrument Response in Complex Radiation Fields

10:15 → 10:30 break

10:30 → 12:30 Individual Dosimetry

12:30 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 15:45 High Level Dosimetry

15:45 → 16:00 break

16:00 → 17:45 Radiation protection Training

17:45 → 18:45 discussion

Saturday, 16 May

08:30 → 10:30 Practical Implementation of Optimization in Radiation Protection

10:30 → 10:45 break

10:45 → 12:30 Implementation of ALARA ( As Low As Reasonably Achievable) in Design and Operation of Accelerators

12:30 → 14:15 lunch

14:15 → 16:00 Safety systems

16:00 → 16:59 Discussion

19:00 → 23:30 DINNER + SPECIAL LECTURE: Understanding and characterization of the risks to human health from exposures to low levels of radiation

Sunday, 17 May

08:30 → 19:00 Archeological visits

Monday, 18 May

08:30 → 10:30 Simulation Calculations

10:30 → 10:45 break

10:45 → 12:30 Environmental Management

12:30 → 14:15 lunch

14:15 → 16:00 Programs for the evaluation of the environmental impact

16:00 → 16:15 break

16:15 → 18:00 Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning

18:00 → 18:45 Discussion

Tuesday, 19 May

08:30 → 10:30 Medical and Biological Aspects for the use of High Energy Accelerators in Radiation Therapy

10:30 → 10:45 break

10:45 → 12:30 Medical Physics Aspects of Particle Therapy

12:30 → 14:15 lunch

14:15 → 16:00 Radiation Protection Constraints for Use of Accelerators in Medicine

16:00 → 16:15 break

16:15 → 17:15 Discussion

Wednesday, 20 May

08:30 → 09:30 Summing up of the course

09:30 → 11:00 What is next? Farewells

11:00 → 11:15 END OF THE COURSE