Publication date: 
2020/06/12
Although access to workplaces in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic was limited, the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague had decided to present its scientific workplaces of interest to high school students, but also to other curious parties.

It did so through a series of online facebook broadcasts called K Jádru věci (To the Core). These videos are now also available through YouTube channel.

 

A series of six visits to interesting scientific workplaces began at the thermonuclear fusion reactor - the Golem tokamak on 23 April, 2020. The very first live broadcast attracted an audience so large that it would not even fit into the largest auditorium of the FNSPE! In the following weeks, new video broadcast  had been added every Thursday from 10.00: a visit to the VR-1 Vrabec fission nuclear reactor, photochemical reactor of the Department of Nuclear Chemistry, presentation of thin film production by the Department of Solid State Engineering, particle detectors of the Center for Applied Physics and Advanced Detection Systems (CAPADS) ) and at the end of May, a livestream on the use of physics in medicine .

 

The videos, lasting from 35 to 105 minutes, present the individual workplaces of the faculty in Břehová, Trojanov, Troja and Dejvice streets, and each required several hours of preparation. Up to 350 people watched some of the videos at one time. Originally, live broadcasts are still stored on the faculty's Facebook page (and are now on the faculty's YouTube channel) so that more people can watch them.

 

You can find individual videos here:

 

·     Golem tokomak   (Vojtěch Svoboda)

·     nuclear fission reactor VR-1 Vrabec (Lenka Frýbortová, Ondřej Novák)

·     photochemical reactor (Václav Čuba)

·     thin layer production (Jakub Skočdopole)

·     particle detections (Miroslav Havránek, Michal Marčišovský)

·     application of physics in medicine (Tomáš Vrba)