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Visit from Surrey University Students
04 March 2010
Health Physics has for many years provided annual bursaries for two students on Surrey University's MSc Radiation & Environmental Protection course. Other support is provided in the form of course running costs, a Nuvia Student Prize and lectures provided by our Health Physics staff. This link with Surrey has provided us with many of the outstanding health physics staff we have with us today.
Another contribution to the course, and related courses such as Radiation Detection and Instrumentation, is to provide the students with the opportunity to visit some real facilities. Visits to Harwell by groups of Surrey students have therefore taken place for many years. Organised by RPA Gordon Gallacher, the visit this year included a morning of talks by Health Physics staff on the Approved Dosimetry Service’s sixty years' of experience in dosimetry, our Groundhog detector and our involvement in the Po-210 incident in London in 2006/07.
In the afternoon, RSRL, Scientifics and REVISS kindly allowed the students to visit some of their facilities in, respectively, DIDO, Bld 551 laboratories and the Bld 466 storage pond / cobalt store.
Photo: The students at Harwell outside B351.28 wearing their regulation Hi-viz waistcoats.