Welcome to the Website of the
Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences is a multidisciplinary team aimed
at research of natural and man made environment, whose activity is based on up to
date nuclear analytical methods. The section is divided into four groups, according
to the distinct research areas in concern.
Hertelendi Laboratory of Environmental Studies,
a multidisciplinary team dedicated to
research in nuclear analytical methods, stable isotope measurements and systems technology.
It has considerable expertise in isotope measurements, radiocarbon dating,
tritium measurements, monitoring activity around nuclear facilities and modelling of
radionuclides in the environment, most of its projects being strongly related to the Paks NPP activity.
Radon Group primary goal is to perform basic research
aiming at revealing the fundamental physical lows governing geogenezis, geological and biological
transport and behaviour of the radon gas from the rocks and soils through the living environment
into the human body.
K/Ar Laboratory works in the field of
geochronology by applying the conventional K/Ar and Ar-Ar methods. The main fields of research are
time evolution of magmatic (volcanic and plutonic) processes, dating of ore mineralization,
dating of metamorphism and low-grade metamotphism and age determination of tectonic events by using
the closure temperature concept.
The main topics of QMS Laboratory are
study of the main parameters of quadrupoles, development of QMS-based methods and application of
QMS in measurements, membrane inlet mass spectrometry (MIMS) and basic vacuum physics and technology.
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