The Czech Republic and JINR. Long-Term Fruitful

Prof. C.Šimáně (right) and his co-worker check very accurate goniometry device which was used for
adjustment of target mono-crystals in the neutron beam of IBR-2 (1981)
In the period of 2002–2004 the development of a gamma-gamma coincidence
spectrometer was carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Experimental and Applied
Physics of the Czech Technical University (IEAP CTU) in Prague (Prof. S. Pospíšil and
others) through the Program of the targeted use of the Czech contribution to JINR.
In 2002-2007 the NAA Department of FLNP (M.V. Frontasyeva) and the Nuclear
Physics Institute, Řež (J. Kučera) successfully participated in the IAEA Co-ordinatition
Research Program “Use of nuclear and related analytical techniques in studying human
exposure to toxic elements consumed through foodstuffs contaminated by industrial
activities”. In addition to financial support from the IAEA, these studies were supported by
the grant of the Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic in 2004.
Current plans include investigations concerning the environmental situation in
industrial areas in the Czech Republic, particularly around Opava and Ostrava (Andrea
Kotrlová) under the Protocol on scientific and technical cooperation with the Faculty of
Philosophy and Science of the Silesian University, Opava, with the involvement of its
undergraduate and graduate students.
Since 2005, during Schools targeted to participants from the JINR Member States,
students from the Czech Republic are being regularly trained at the NAA Department of
FLNP. In 2005, Milan Těšínský from the Czech Technical University, Prague, prepared his
Master thesis “Measurement of neutron spectra at the reactor IBR-2 of FLNP JINR” based on
the experimental results obtained in Dubna.
The FLNP Department of Nuclear Physics maintains long-term collaboration with
the Czech universities and research centres. Particularly, it is the collaboration with the INP,
Řež, which mainly consists in joint experiments on measurements of the intensity of doublequantum
cascades occurring when slow neutrons are captured by a target consisting of
separated isotopes, carried out at the INP reactor. Collaboration included J. Honzátko,
I. Tomandl, A. Sukhovoj and V. Khitrov.
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