Radiation Protection and Environmental Radiology
This course you will learn what you need to know how to protect yourself, others and the environment from radiation. You will understand what the dangers of radioactivity and radiation are, and how to quantify and mitigate these dangers.
You will learn the difference between radiation protection and operational quantities and how these can be related, calculated or measured. You will get hands-on experience with a broad range of detectors at a laboratory exercise at the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority (SSM).
Equally important is that you learn how the Swedish legislation functions and how it is related to the core concepts of radiation protection on a global level.
Nuclear waste management is also a part of this course, which we will show to you in practice by a study trip to related nuclear power facilities (e.g. fuel element fabrication, a nuclear power plant or nuclear waste deposit).
This course has been updated with a new version, and we refer to the new course web page for more information; FK8050 Radiation Protection and Environmental Radiology.





