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Electromagnetic fields
- What are electromagnetic fields?
- Static and low-frequency fields
- Radiation protection relating to the expansion of the national grid
- High-frequency fields
- Radiation protection in mobile communication
Optical radiation
Ionising radiation
- What is ionising radiation?
- Radioactivity in the environment
- Applications in medicine
- Applications in daily life and in technology
- Effects
- What are the effects of radiation?
- Effects of selected radioactive materials
- Consequences of a radiation accident
- Cancer and leukaemia
- Genetic radiation effects
- Individual radiosensitivity
- Epidemiology of radiation-induced diseases
- Ionising radiation: positive effects?
- Risk estimation and assessment
- Radiation protection
- Nuclear accident management
- What happens in an emergency?
- Federal and state tasks
- In the event of an emergency
- Measuring networks
- Exercises for emergency situations
- Nuclear accidents
- Defence against nuclear hazards
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Practice in an emergency
For the event of an accident in a nuclear facility in Germany or neighbouring countries, the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) operates a radiological emergency preparedness system which will be activated immediately to protect the population against ionising radiation. In order to determine the resulting radiation exposure for the people and to be able to take the appropriate protective measures in an emergency, the contamination of the environment must be measured and assessed quickly and reliably. Exercises are performed by employees of the BfS to assure proper operation of the radiological emergency preparedness system under such conditions.