International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Research Applications and Utilization of Accelerators
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SM/AE-04 Educational Applications on Particle Accelerators in Brazil A.C.V.S. Santana , H.A. Nogueira , and A.C.F. Sobreira R2 – Soluções Radiofarmácia, Sao Paulo, Brazil Corresponding Author: anavanique@gmail.com The Brazilian production of radiopharmaceuticals and radioisotopes for medical usage dates back to the 70’s, since the beginning up to 2006; it was a monopoly of the government-owned corporations. After the market was open for the private enterprise, the quantity of small particle accelerators is increasing. The difficulties are many, from industry installation to the hard time on finding qualified personnel. The lack of investment on this area brought few trained people and the trained ones keep working in the government laboratories. Facing this issue, a strong program was started on training and educating people on universities, businesses enterprises and at hospitals in order to increase the human resources capabilities in the country. Activities such as laboratory research and lectures are being made as well in order to adapt Brazil to the renascence of the nuclear technology and increase the knowledge in the field of particle accelerators. These investments on education are preparing professionals in several areas, such as: physics, engineering, pharmacy, medicine, administration, among others. It started on the universities not only with lectures and workshops, but also with research partnerships on the stand-by time of the particle accelerators. At clinics and hospitals the efforts are focused in the improvement and training of the particle accelerator product applications. One of the private enterprise corporations has trained more than 30 people from five different states and established partnership with five different universities, qualifying people on installation, operation, maintenance and administration of the whole process of implementation of a particle accelerator site. It’s also collaborating with the universities and researchers in the development of new techniques: the irradiation of other material targets or the use of non-usual particle beams, allowing the study of the nuclear activation of the concrete walls of the particle accelerator’s bunker and the radionuclide capture on the filters of the air conditioning system in the factories.
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