Trigger Warning: This episode discusses cancer and radiation treatments.
Description: In this educational episode, Naman Julka-Anderson and Jo McNamara sit down with Dr. Riccardo Bevilacqua, a nuclear physicist with a PhD focused on neutron data for Generation IV nuclear reactors, Riccardo has worked as a scientist with the European Commission and at various international research facilities. His career has evolved from research to radiation safety, and now back to his roots in medical physics, a field that first captured his interest as a student in Italy. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Riccardo currently drives global radiation safety initiatives at Elekta. Beyond work, Riccardo is a father, a stepfather, and enjoys writing popular science articles about physics and radiation.
Episode 155 of our Education and Workforce Development series (part 53).
Radioactive talks. The story of the visionary PhoNeS project, where a brilliant nuclear physicist discovered how to transform standard radiation oncology medical linacs into neutron factories, dreaming to bring the BNCT cancer treatment directly into hospitals.
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