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Highlights of the 6th Symposium of CRPA

The Sixth Symposium of the Croatian Radiation Protection Association (CRPA, www.crpa.hr) with international participation was held in Stubičke Toplice Spa (near Zagreb) from 18th to 20th April, 2005. The organizers of the Symposium were CRPA, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, and the Rudjer Bošković Institute. For the 6th Symposium 77 presentations were registered, and this is 15 more than at the 5th Symposium of CRPA in 2003. All presentations were given orally in thematic sessions: 1. General topics of interest for radiation protections (12 presentations), 2. Dosimetry and instrumentation (13 presentations), 3. Biological effects of radiations (12), 4. Public exposure to radiation (8), 5. Radiation protection in medicine (8), 6. Radioecology (18), and 7. Non-ionizing radiations (6). In addition, we had the invited introductory lecture devoted to the World Year of Physics 2005, and the introductory talk to the Round-table discussion. All 79 presentations were published in the Proceedings [1], most of them in the form of an extended abstract of several pages in Croatian with a 1-page English abstract. All abstracts are available at the INIS (International Nuclear Information System) database (http://inisdb.iaea.org/inis/). Some full papers after peer review will be published in the special issue of the journal Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, and about 20 abstracts selected by the Scientific Committee will be published in Health Physics. Celebrating the World Year of Physics 2005, CRPA organized in co-operation with the Croatian Physical Society (www.hfd.hr) invited lecture that should connect physics and radiation protection. The lecture entitled "Light sources and light pollution" [2] was held on the day of Einstein's birthday, 18 April. After the historical overview of the development of various light sources, the author presented recent technological achievements with "blue" and "white" light diodes. However, the development of new light sources is at the same time also a threat for the wildlife at night. Photo-induced changes at the cell level may completely alter the normal life of plants and animals. The need for legislative regulation also in the field of light pollution is pointed out, and this is the field where our society can be engaged more intensively.

6th Symposium CRPA; report

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