Department of Physics and Astronomy

Vakgroep Fysica en Sterrenkunde

Radiation Physics Research Group

Welcome to the Radiation Physics home page at the University Gent in Belgium!

Contact:

 

Prof. Dr. Jos UYTTENHOVE

Instituut Nucleaire Wetenschappen

Institute for Nuclear Sciences

 

Proeftuinstraat 86

B - 9000 GENT (Belgium)

 

jos.uyttenhove@UGent.be

 

http://ssf.UGent.be

 

Onderzoeksgebieden
  • Radioactiviteitsmetingen (lage activiteitsmetingen)
  • Hoge resolutie gamma spectrometrie
  • In-situ metingen met draagbare germanium detector
  • Opvolging van de gevolgen van het Tsjernobyl ongeval
  • Studie van verarmd uranium (Depleted Uranium) in grondmonsters
Research Topics:
  • Radioactivity measurements (low-level, environmental)
  • High resolution gamma spectrometry
  • In-situ measurements with portable germanium detector
  • Follow-up of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident
  • Depleted Uranium study on soil samples 

Enige publicaties - Some publications:

1. Capabilities and limitations of high resolution gamma spectrometry in environmental research, J. Uyttenhove; Keynote address on the Seventh Intern. Symposium “Natural Radiation Environment (NRE-VII)” Rhodos (Greece). Published in the book:  Radioactivity in the Environment : 7 : Seventh International Symposium on the Natural Radiation Environment (NRE-VII) - Oxford, England : Elsevier, 2005 - first. - (7) - 1190 p. - ISBN 0-08-044137-8. p. 45-55

2. Depleted Uranium in Kosovo: Results of a survey by gamma spectrometry on soil samples; J. Uyttenhove, M. Lemmens and M. Zizi, Health Physics, vol. 83, Nb. 4 (2002) 543-548

3. Survey of the 137Cs contamination in Belgium by in-situ gamma spectrometry, a decade after the Chernobyl accident,  J.Uyttenhove, S. Pommé, B. Van Wayenberge,

Annual Meeting of the Belgian Physical Society, Namur (Belgium), 1998

 

4. Follow up of the Chernobyl 137Cs concentration in Belgium by means of in-situ gamma spectrometry, J. Uyttenhove, B. Van Wayenberge, S. Pommé, F. Hardeman, J. Buysse,  
J-P. Culot, Ann. Belg. Ver. Stralingsbescherming, Vol. 21, No.4 (1996), 329-337

Foto's van in-situ metingen - Some pictures of in-situ measurements

 

Interested in the History of Sciences? Visit the website of our "Museum for the History of Sciences" 

Belangstelling voor de Geschiedenis van de Wetenschappen? Bezoek dan de website van ons "Museum voor de Geschiedenis van de Wetenschappen"

Presentatie "Van Thomas Young naar DNA" uit de lessenreeks "Geschiedenis van de Wetenschappen" (2010)

Stuur even een e-mail als je meer informatie wenst! Ask more information by e-mail:

jos.uyttenhove@UGent.be

Laatste update: 28 november 2010