Purpose and Uses - hdbk11080046

DOE-HDBK-1108-97

Radiological Training for Accelerator Facilities

Instructor's Guide

Lesson Plan

Instructor's Notes

In the early 1960s, physicists had gained enough

experience in accelerator technology to be able to build

colliders in which two carefully controlled beams are

made to collide with each other at a chosen point. The

beams for colliders may come from two synchrotrons or

two linear accelerators.

Purpose and Uses

EO-01 IDENTIFY uses for

accelerators.

Accelerators were originally designed to study

(research) the structure of matter. Accelerators today

are used not only for basic research purposes, but for

many other applications such as:

Production of radioisotopes, such as tritium.

Generation of bremsstrahlung for radiography

Define the terms, such as

and radiation therapy.

bremsstrahlung and actinide

transmutation as necessary.

Induction of fusion.

Pumping for lasers.

Detoxification of hazardous waste.

Actinide transmutation.

Production of synchrotron radiation.

Sterilization of food and surgical equipment.

Medical radiation therapy.