NCBJ at 20th Science Festival in Warsaw

Our exhibits, lectures and physical experiments to be presented during this year event include:

• various shields for various types of ionizing radiation (a, b, g)
• cosmic ray detector (“muon panel”)
• Wilson chamber capable to reveal tracks of nuclear particles
• model of a radionuclide generator capable to produce nuclides used in nuclear medicine diagnostics/therapy and/or for radioactive labelling applications
• radioactive iodine capsules used to treat thyroid cancer and shields used to ship the isotope
• nuclear reactor simulator
• several toys demonstrating basics of physics in funny ways (an ascending double-cone, a rubber hemisphere throwing out some balls, a tippe top, a magnetic sphere inside a copper pipe, a hourglass with a magnet and iron filings, a plasma ball, a gyroscope, an Euler disc, a solar windmill, a candle lit with a remote control, a Newton pendulum, some soap shapes, a chaotic pendulum, a Crookes radiometer)
• ionising radiation around us demonstrated with the help of a Geiger-Müller counter in salt, granite, welding electrodes, clocks, shoes of the visitors
• map of natural radiation background in Poland and in the Masovia voivodeship
• lecture on advanced techniques in medical imaging (PET, gamma camera, scintigraph)
• lecture on state-of-the-art cancer treatment methods//equipment (electron/proton/carbon ion accelerators, steretactic/intra-operative/selective internal radiotherapy).