European Nuclear Society
e-news Issue 45 Summer 2014
http://www.euronuclear.org/e-news/e-news-45/hungary.htm

Nuclear Summer Camp 2014

The 8th Nuclear Summer Camp for secondary school students was organised by the Hungarian Nuclear Society in July 2014. Teenagers arrived from several cities in Hungary to listen to presentations given by nuclear experts and teachers on nuclear technology and on nuclear physics and communications. The students carried out special nuclear measurements at the Eötvös Lóránd University, and visited the training reactor of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The Nuclear Summer Camp programme included visits to Paks Nuclear Power Plant and to the Museum of Nuclear Energy.

The lectures covered the following topics:

• Nuclear basics

• The life of Leó Szilárd

• Electric energy production in Hungary

• The basic components of nuclear power plants

• Fusion reactors  

• VVER technology – history and perspectives

• Cyber safety and uranium enrichment

• The handling of radioactive wastes

• Fuel for nuclear power plants

• Thorium reactors

• Nuclear techniques in medicine

• Radon in the environment

• Risk analysis  

The summer camp was located in Göd, which is a small village by the Danube River that offers many possibilities for leisure activities. 

The Hungarian Nuclear Society

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