Atomic Institute
The Atominstitute , formerly the Atominstitute of the Austrian Universities , is an institute of the Faculty of Physics at the Technical University of Vienna . With its research reactor TRIGA Mark II , which went into operation in 1962 , it is the only facility remaining in Austria today that has an operating nuclear fission reactor (see also list of nuclear reactors in Austria ). Thorsten Schumm has been the head of the institute since the end of 2017. The institute is located in Vienna 2nd , Stadionallee 2, right next to the stadium bridge over the Danube Canal . The main entrance for pedestrians is at Schüttelstraße 115.
history
In autumn 1895, the kuk Hof-Fourage-Magazin, built by the office community of architects Gustav Orglmeister (1861–1953) and Franz Kupka (1855–1924), was put into operation. The facility consisted of a six-story granary (oats), two barns (1,100 m² each), a stable building and an administration building (including apartments). After the First World War , the former Fourage depot served as a federal wagon company from 1919 and from the end of 1925 as a set depot for the federal theaters, which until then had been housed in the west gallery of the rotunda . Badly damaged during the Second World War , the buildings were demolished after the war.
Founded as an inter-university institute in 1958 under the name Atominstitut der Austrian Universities , it was administratively assigned to the Technical University of Vienna as early as 1962. It maintained its special status as an inter-university institute for more than three decades and was run under the name Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universities . In 2009 the institute was renamed the Atomic Institute . At the same time, the often used English form Atomic Institute or Atomic Institute of the Austrian Universities was renamed. Thus the official name of the institute is in the English Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics . Today the Atomic Institute is an institute of the Technical University of Vienna and, together with the institutes for theoretical, applied and solid state physics, forms the faculty for physics of this university.
During its more than 40 years of existence, the institute has undergone major changes. Originally dedicated to research and training in the fields of atomic , nuclear and reactor physics , radiation physics and radiation protection , environmental analysis and radiochemistry as well as nuclear measurement technology, other research areas have been added over the years.
Today the focus of research is in the fields of radiation physics, neutron and quantum physics , applied quantum physics, quantum optics , as well as low-temperature physics and superconductivity .
The appointments made in 2006 and 2009 (work areas quantum optics and applied quantum physics) complement the core, reactor, neutron and radiation physics focus of the Atomic Institute. The Atomic Institute thus covers essential scientific areas of nuclear, radiation, atomic and reactor physics. The renovation work in recent years has brought the laboratories back to the state of the art.
Research areas
The atomic institute is organizationally divided into central facilities, in particular research reactor and operational radiation protection, as well as six research areas: applied quantum physics , atomic physics and quantum optics , nuclear and particle physics , neutron and quantum physics, radiation physics as well as low temperature physics and superconductivity .
The research reactor is used as part of the Safeguards program of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the United Nations for the training and education of specialist inspectors.
Personalities
- Fritz Regulator , co-founder of the institute
- Heinz Oberhummer , astrophysicist and science buster
- Helmut Rauch , quantum physicist
- Jörg Schmiedmayer , quantum physicist
Others
A special feature is the unique geographical location of the reactor near the center of a large city - Vienna . The distance between St. Stephen's Cathedral and the nuclear reactor is around 3.2 km. The research facility is located on the edge of the Prater and is therefore popularly called the Praterreactor .
Between 2005 and 2010, more than 16,500 people, mostly schoolchildren, took part in public tours of the Atomic Institute.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The TRIGA Mark-II reactor , Atominstitut, TU Wien, last updated October 19, 2015
- ↑ High-life. (...) The newly built courtyard magazine is located next to the Kaiser Franz Josefs-Brücke in the Prater (...). In: Wiener Salonblatt , No. 52/1895 (XXVIth year), December 29, 1895, p. 6, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Hoffouragemagazin in Vienna History Wiki of the city of Vienna
- ↑ Top physicist Schmiedmayer returns to Vienna , science.orf.at, November 28, 2005, last accessed May 16, 2016. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Annual report of the Atomic Institute 2005-2007 (PDF file; 1.71 MB)
- ↑ Activity report of the Atomic Institute 2008-2010 (PDF file; 4.7 MB)
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 48 ″ N , 16 ° 24 ′ 46 ″ E