The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies
Department of Training and Consulting

05-400 Otwock - ¦wierk tel (++4822) 718 0612 or 718 0571 fax (++4822) 779 3481

Department of Training and Consulting arranges systematic courses of radiation physics for high-schools, teachers and university students. In addition, it conducts training in the field of radiological safety and risks connected with ionizing radiation. Department accepts yearly about 5000 high-school pupils for whom a special laboratory of atomic and nuclear physics was also organized.

Unique experimental physics laboratory for high-schools was organized by the Department. The laboratory offers possibilities of experiments, carried out by the high-school students themselves, who may learn this way basic properties of X-rays (X-ray spectrum from the tube, attenuation in various materials, Compton scattering, diffraction etc.) as well as a, b and g radiation, measure e/m ratio, investigate the properties of luminescence, see the gamma spectra of various radioactive sources by gamma spectrometry, study excitation of atoms by gamma radiation, etc.
The lecture hall is equipped in various didactical means: demonstration set-ups like video system, which permits one to show pedagogical films, as well as experimental units for demonstration of phenomena from atomic and nuclear radiation physics. When small objects (like the model of Wilson chamber) are displayed one may project the image through the video-camera to the TV screen.
Next to the lecture hall an exhibition „Radioactive wastes: problems, solutions” was arranged and is permanently open to the public. The exhibition contains many tableaux which serve as introductory material, so the visitors do not need a help of a professional guide. Nevertheless, it is quite typical that our staff is guiding the tours over the exhibition and discusses the problems of the nuclear wastes treatment and storage with the visitors.
Model of a nuclear power plant to be built in the 1980-90 decade in Żarnowiec close to the Baltic seashore at north of Poland (but never built in reality)

See illustrated glossary of terms related to nuclear physics and technology.