Maria Eugenia de Melo Rego

Actively assist the Chair of Nuclear Technology by organising external visits; performing teaching-related duties, such as teaching lower level courses; improving and developing teaching materials; preparing, giving and grading examinations.

One of the responsible for designing the Radiation Monitoring System at an experimental NPP in Brazil (LABGENE). The core duty was guaranteeing compliance with national and international nuclear safety standards and: > preparing ad hoc licensing and commissioning reports; > auditing P&IDs; > writing technical specification for equipment acquisition (open tendering); > witnessing equipment FAT on behalf of CTMSP; > guarantee efficient interface with other systems.

Technical support during 3 different outages for: > replacement of the reactor vessel head and refueling in Angra-1 (1P19 - 3 months), and > general maintenance and reactor refueling in Angra-2 (2P10 and 2P11 - 1 and 2 months, resp.). Responsible for guaranteeing reliable radiation protection inside and outside the reactor containment, to Brazilian and international teams.

MSc junior researcher with full scholarship from the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN). Advisor: Goro Hiromoto. The carried out work was focused on successfully design an optimum management plan for the radioactive liquid waste generated during the production of molybdenum-99 by nuclear fission, at the future Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor (RMB).

As a physicist of the Occupational Radiation Protection Service in the Concentrated Uranium Unit - URA of INB, some of my duties were: > Providing training (Portuguese and English) in Radiation Protection; > Elaborating, reviewing and auditing occupational monitoring plans and procedures; > Elaborating technical specification for equipment acquisition (open tendering); > and other activities in compliance with CNEN regulations.

Project funded by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) with scholarship granted by CNPq, advised by Brett Vern Carlson. Nuclear data on nuclear reactions induced by protons was carefully selected in the range of proton-therapy interest. The main goal was to adapt the already existing IAEA Data Base EXFOR for proton-induced reactions use. Parts of this work were published in annals of events.

Management of the radioactive liquid waste generated during the production of Mo-99 for medical purposes (mother of Tc-99m, needed in nuclear medicine).

Data base on nuclear reactions induced by protons for medical purposes (Proton-therapy).