Boston educators experience nuclear science
The ANS workshop titled, "Detecting Radiation in Our Radioactive World," will provide activities for teachers, using many ordinary materials found around the house.
Activities Include:
- Using a cloud chamber and dry ice to create a mini-cloud to show trails of radioactive emissions not normally visual with the naked eye that reveals how radiation is all around us but we just never see it.
- Changing salt, exposed to gamma radiation that is brownish in color, back to white, representing how items can store energy from gamma radiation but won't make them radioactive.
This one-day workshop will feature five nuclear professionals from a range of applications including, Breazeale Reactor at Penn State University, Harvard Medical School and Nuclear Medicine Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Manager of Advanced Plants from General Electric, NASA Langley Research Center and a professor from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
These nuclear experts will share their knowledge on teaching nuclear science and technology and discuss some of the modern applications of nuclear science in medicine, energy, space exploration and highlight growing career opportunities in the nuclear science and technology field.
Funding for the workshop is provided by contributions made by individuals, organizations and the ANS Professional Divisions to the ANS Public Education Program (PEP).
