PVNT 4405 Operational Health Physics
In this course, students develop an understanding of planning, guidelines and directives relating to radiation protection in operational and fixed facility operations laid out by the NRC and OSHA. The course builds foundational skills of identifying factors contributing to military occupational illnesses in deployment or garrison environments; conditions increasing long-term risks; effects of a nuclear detonation; Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN); depleted uranium (DU) characteristics and associated hazards mitigation strategies. The course familiarizes students with the Army Radiation Detection, Identification and Computation (RADIAC) equipment and to plan and perform an area radiation survey.