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Center for Radiation Protection and Radioecology (ZSR)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Center for Radiation Protection and Radioecology (ZSR) is a central scientific institute of the Hannover University. Its activities are about equally distributed among research, education of students and teaching radiation protection to radiation workers and health physics officials. In addition, ZSR is providing services to the University by collecting, conditioning and disposal of radioactive waste, and it offers consulting to University institutes for the safe and regulatorily adequate handling of radioactive materials and ionizing radiation. Though being founded only at the first of January 1994, ZSR bases on 30 years of experience in the fields of radiation protection and radioecology. The new institute was created by combining two institutes, the Zentraleinrichtung für Strahlenschutz (ZfS) and the Niedersächsisches Institut für Radioökologie (NIR), which both had their roots in the early 1960th. This sites gives an actual survey on the educational and research activities at ZSR. It is annually updated and serves as a report of ZSR to the President and the Senate of the University Hannover. It shall provide with a minimum of space a maximum of information about ZSR to the international community. It shall give an opportunity for further reading, for making personal contacts to ZSR staff and for enrolling to radiation protection courses.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
Contact
Center for Radiation Protection and Radioecology
(ZSR)
Herrenhäuser Straße 2
D-30419 Hannover
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: 0511-762-4576
Fax: 0511-762-3008
Email: michel(@)zsr.uni-hannover.de