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Floods in Czech Republic - what happened to
Charles University in PragueFaculty of
Mathematics and Physics
and
Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
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Faculty of Mathematics and PhysicsEducates
students in a wide variety of directions which
correspond to individual departments and their
scientific interests

• Mathematics and Informatics
• Algebra - Computational Mathematics - Didactics
  in Mathematics -Mathematical Analysis -
  Probability and Mathematical Statistics - Applied
  Mathematics - Mathematical Logic and Philosophy
  of Mathematics - Numerical Mathematics - Software
  Engineering - Theoretical Computer Science -
  Software and of Computer Science Education
  Institute of Mathematics, Inst. of Formal and
  Applied Linguistic
• Physics
• Physics Education - Chemical Physics and Optics -
  General Physics Teaching - Metal Physics -
  Electronic Structures - Electronics and Vacuum
  Physics - Low Temperature Physics - Polymer
  Physics - Geophysics - Meteorology and
  Environmental Protection - Theoretical Physics
  Astronomy Institute, Inst. of Particle and
  Nuclear Physics

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Karlov
Karlín
Trója
Malá Strana
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
The professional profile of the Faculty could be
found on web http//www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.
en/veda/profil/ Departments with their home
pages are listed on http//www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8
859-2.en/fakulta/struktura/sekcef.htm
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Trója campus was a place of many conferences,
schools and workshops - here are participants of
the school Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics 99,
organized in collaboration with Nuclear Physics
Institute
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
The Departments and Institutes work in wide
international collaborations, as for example
Institute of Particle and Nuclear
Physics participates within the framework of
Center for Particle Physics (http//www-hep2.fzu.c
z/Centrum/eng/index.html) together with the
Institute of Physics of Czech Academy of Sciences
in experiments ATLAS at CERN (there is a strong
collaboration with US ATLAS on Tilecal project
and on heavy-ion program for ATLAS), H1 at DESY,
D0 at Fermilab and in several other experiments.
There is also a broad international
collaboration in the area of theoretical nuclear
and particle physics (deep inelastic scattering,
electroweak interactions, chiral perturbation
theory, quantum field theory, the structure of
complex nuclei and the mechanism of nuclear
reactions, quantum chaos, finite fermionic
systems, properties of metal clusters and quantum
dots are the topics of study at IPNP). In recent
years, a series of conferences and summer schools
on some of these topics were (co)organized by
IPNP.
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
The main activities cover scientific research in
nuclear physics (both theoretical and
experimental) and in related fields (dosimetry of
ionizing radiation, accelerator techniques, solid
state physics, material research). Further
activities are connected with applying the
methods of nuclear physics in interdisciplinary
areas of research and development, such as
biology, environmental sciences and medicine. The
institute performs research and development of
new radiopharmaceuticals and provides its
radiopharmaceutical production to the medicine
facilities. The institute develops the new
methods of production of radionuclides and
provides irradiation services on various
materials.
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
The basic experimental facility is the cyclotron
U-120 M operating with charged particles, protons
and light ions, up to energy of 36 MeV (protons).
The cyclotron is used both for nuclear physics
experiments and radionuclide productions.
Electrostatic Van de Graaff accelerator yielding
an ion beam of energy of 2.5 MeV is employed
mainly in nuclear analytical methods. The beams
of thermal neutrons produced by nuclear reactor
LVR-15 of the Nuclear Research Institute, p.l.c.,
are used in reseach and development of solid
state physics and material sciences. Institute
consists of the following departments, their
detailed activities can be found on the institute
web pages Theoretical Physics - Nuclear
Spectroscopy - Nuclear Reactions - Neutron
Physics - Radiation Dosimetry -
Radiopharmaceuticals
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
NPI groups are involved in many international
collaborations. They take part in the experiment
STAR at RHIC. Participation in the ALICE
experiment at the Large Hadron Collider facility,
now being constructed at CERN, should certainly
be also mentioned. This experiment, which will
start after 2005, stands at the frontier in the
exploration of properties of matter. Other
collaborations in the heavy-ion physics with
institutions in Europe (GSI, GANIL, and JINR
Dubna) contribute significantly to the scientific
profile of NPI, as well. On the other hand, the
domestic site at Rež has to provide enough
opportunities for research which, as the case
might be, proves to be attractive for foreign
groups. In particular, the set of apparatuses
around light water reactor LWR-15 and abilities
of members of the Department of Neutron Physics
are requisites for top investigations in the
neutron optics, solid state physics, and material
research.
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
Interesting results have been obtained at the
electrostatic electron spectrometer ESA 12 on
possible admixtures of heavy neutrinos in beta
spectra. Beams of d and 3He accelerated by the
U-120M cyclotron have been used in the study of
nuclear reactions important from the
astrophysical point of view. Wide spectrum of
topics is covered by the Department of
Theoretical Physics with respectable results.
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In August 2002 ...
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heavy rains over Southern Bohemia
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caused the flood exceeding all historical
records
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To Rež
Physics campus Trója
Mathematics at Karlín
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Faculty of Mathematics and PhysicsTrója campus
under water
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Faculty of Mathematics and PhysicsTrója campus
under water
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
The mathematical library in Karlín building was
heavily damaged ...
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
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Flood, August 14, 2002
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NPI, main street, 15.8.2002, 8.00
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Nuclear Spectroscopy building, 15.8.2002, 8.00
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Basement of the cyclotron accelerator building,
15.8.2002, 8.00
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Library
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics

• The Damage
• Mathematics building in Karlin
• 14 Mkc (0,5 M) infrastructure
• and 56 Mkc (1,9 M) in loss of books and
  periodicals
• Physics campus in Trója
• 38 MKc (1,3 M) infrastructure
• and 35 MKc (1,2 M) direct damage on
  experimental
• equipment and library.

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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
The Damage continued A non-negligible part of the
damage in Troja campus was the damage in the
library saved lost Monographs () 138
39 Journals (tittles) 0 4 Textbooks ()
3 276 1 383 Lecture notes (ks) 2 904 2 076
It will be hardly possible to restore
completely the state before the flood, many
texbooks should be replaced by equivalents. About
0.1M is needed.
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
The Damage continued The most seriously wounded
department was the Department of Low Temperature
Physics Its Laboratory of NMR in magnetic
materials needs about 2.3 M for repairs and
replacement of damaged parts, the Cryogenic
section supplying LN2 and LHe to many
institutions in Prague needs 0.47 M for
restoration, the Laboratory of the high
resolution NMR in liquids needs 0.8 M for
repairs, the Laboratory of cryogenic turbulence
needs 0.9 M, the Laboratory of Mössbauer
spectroscopy needs 1 M. Efforts to get
necessary funding for repairs and replacement
already started.
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
The Restoration started with strong
participation of the staff and students
immediately after the water went away. But it
took more than a month to restore the
electricity supply to the campus and almost
two months to fully restore the computer
network services.
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics

• The Restoration
• The costs of restoration will be partly covered
  by The Ministry of Education
• 0.83 M to restore the basic functionality of
  Trója campus
• 0.20 M to restore the basic functionality of
  Karlín building
• 0.82 M to restore the low temperature
  laboratories, labs of magnetic studies and the
  infrastructure
• Further funds (about 1.2 M) are required from
  the Charles University to renew the helium
  liquifier, laboratory of the high-resolution NMR,
  laboratory of NMR in magnetic materials, the
  SQUID magnetometer and the dissolving
  refrigerator 3He-4He with magnet.

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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
The Restoration is well on the way
... http//www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/vnitro/
povoden/
Trója entrance hall, now
But any help is appreciated ..., please contact
Zdenek.Nemecek_at_mff.cuni.cz
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
The Damage Administration building Basement
floor was flooded up to 1.3 m ...Some dosimetric
equipment was wrecked here and in all other
buildings. RD radiopharmaceutical laboratory was
almost completely destroyed Nuclear Spectroscopy
building Basement floor with cloakrooms and
various storage places was flooded up to 2,9 m.
Two vacuum pumps have been destroyed.
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
The Damage continued Cyclotron building Basement
floor with substantial technical basis of the
cyclotron was flooded up to 1,5 m. The high
voltage sources, sources for the beam lines,
vacuum system, and cooling water unit have been
inundated. PET laboratory This clean laboratory
with the box for PET production including
production machine was flooded up to 1.5 m.
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
The Damage continued Library The library serves
for the whole Rež research area, also for
students and scientists from Prague universities.
The Library was surely the best Czech library on
nuclear science with about 70.000 issues on
nuclear and subnuclear physics, nuclear
techniques and a wide field from mathematics and
theoretical physics, to chemistry and
electronics. During the flood, the underground
store of the library was flooded and about 30-40
of the literature fund was lost.
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
The Damage continued
The most important destroyed journals are Atomic
Data and Nuclear Data Tables European Physical
Journal A Hadrons and Nuclei International
Journal of Modern Physics E Nuclear
Physics Journal of Applied Crystallography Journa
l of Synchrotron Radiation Journal of Electron
Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena Journal of
Mathematical Physics Journal of Nuclear Science
and Technology Modern Physics Letters A Physica
Scripta Physics Today Radiochimica Acta
Science
The other destroyed journals are Applications of
Mathematics Byte Computer Design
Contemporary Physics EDN Magazine Electronic
Design Fortschritte der Physik -Progress of
Physics Hyperfine interactions Microprocessors
and Microsystems Ukrajinskii fizicheskii
journal Problemy procchnosti
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
The Nuclear Physics Institute has about 200
employees, of them nearly 100 scientists. There
are about 22 research groups in the Nuclear
Physics Institute, from them those listed in the
following table are substantially affected by the
flood. The financial estimates of the losses are
also given. We expect that the insurance company
will cover a part of reparation and renewal
budget, the support from the Academy of Sciences
of the CR will also be received (spread for next
few years).
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
Activity - No. of scientists involved - Losses by
the flood - Losses in M Nuclear Reactions for
Astrophysics 8 Cyclotron see cyclotron Fast
Neutron Facility 8 Cyclotron see
cyclotron Radiopharmaceutical RD 4 Cyclotron,
complete radiochemical lab 0.03 PET
Radipharmaceuticals 5 Cyclotron, clean lab,
PET production box 0.29 Cyclotron 8 Power
supplies, vacuum pumps, cooling
systém 1.32 Nuclear Electron Spectroscopy 7 Vacuum
pump 0.005 Semiconductor Det.
Development 3 Vacuum pump, multichannel
analyser 0.005 Library
500 users More than 20.000 issues
0.50 Primary dry and cleaning all 0.20 Buildings
reparations 0.75 Total cost estimate 3.10
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
The Restoration Restoration work started
immediately after water fall off with the
cleaning and disinfection. No radioactive
contamination has been detected. A provisional
electricity distribution was arranged. Also the
provisional water supply had to be
provided. These measures enabled that the work
could start 5 days after flood. The restoration
of our basic equipment cyclotron needs a
longer time, careful cleaning and drying ..., We
hope that the provisional operation of the
cyclotron could start at the end of 2002.
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
We look for other financial contributions and
donations to restore and recover Institute work
in full as soon as possible. Any such support
should be gratefully appreciated. The special
item are irreversible losses of the literature
fund, which are estimated to about 0.5M or even
more. We would like to fill the gaps and if any
library would be discarding duplicates of some
above mentioned important journals we should be
very grateful if the possibility of donating them
to us could kindly be considered. ...
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Nuclear Physics Institute Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rež
We should be also grateful for other journals or
books on nuclear and subnuclear physics and on
the physics and related fields in general. If
such a help could be a case, please contact the
scientific secretary of the Institute Dr. J.
Dittrich dittrich_at_ujf.cas.cz).
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A possible help of APS may result in a board in
both restored libraries
Tato knihovna byla po povodních v srpnu 2002
restaurována s nezapomenutelnou pomocí kolegu z
Americké fyzikální spolecnosti.
This library has been restored after the flood
in August 2002 with the unforgettable help of
colleagues from American Physical Society