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titleIntroduction

It is now generally accepted that there is a need to explicitly demonstrate that the environment is protected from authorised discharges of radioactive substances. In response a number of assessment tools (models) have been developed. As the need for environmental assessment increases there is a requirement to ensure that regulators, industry and their representatives are:

  • conversant with assessment objectives
;
  • know how to use available
tool;
  • tools
  • can interpret the results
;
  • understand the implications of how the tools are used
.The Natural Environment Research Council has provide funding, under the Knowledge Exchange

We have developed training packages on

programme, to develop training packages (including on-line training materials) on

radiological environmental assessment aimed specifically aimed at regulators and industry and those who may conduct

assessment

assessments on their behalf. The

project is

courses are lead by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology with collaborators from the

England & Wales Environment Agency, Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) and the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK.CEN).
The training programme will be focussed

University of Stirling and University of Salford. The training programme is focused towards the use of the ERICA Tool however

,

we

will

also consider other approaches.

We are intending to run four two day courses although if there is sufficient demand we may be able to arrange more. To date two courses have been held in April and November 2010; the dates for the next course are 12th - 14th October 2011.  See

To date we have run training courses in United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and Monaco; see Training courses - schedule & details for further information and feedback from participants.

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For further details and to register

an interest in attending a course. If you want to be kept informed of our activities please register to receive our Newsletters (next edition due early in 2011).
As this website (well it's a Wiki really) and training programme develop there will be interactive training materials available. All of the outputs from the EC EURATOM PROTECT project have been moved to this website as have those from the earlier EURATOM projects ERICA, FASSET and EPIC.
What's on the website
A few tips for using the wiki

your interest:

If you would like to be added to to the training courses mailing list contact Dr Ingo Schüder via UKCEHtraining@ceh.ac.uk


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We have ran courses in the UK, Australia and South Africa which were attended by participants representing organisations such as national and state regulators, the uranium mining industry and consultants. The courses were an adaptation of those we have run in the UK, but, focused to more local interests with associated practical exercises.

If you would like us to organise a similar course for you please contact Dr Ingo Schüder via UKCEHtraining@ceh.ac.uk


You can see the questions people have asked on environmental assessment together with our answers here Questions & Answers



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News site no longer being updated

Please see www.radioecology-exchange.org for more up to date radioecology related news

Posted by: Cath Barnett 1/7/16

Radon Dose Calculator

A spreadsheet model to estimate radon dose rates for wildlife has been made available on this site.

See: Radon dose calculator

Posted by: Nick Beresford/Jordi Vives i Batlle  5/7/2013

Comment on future revision of the ERICA Tool

The STAR consortium includes a number of the organisations who developed the ERICA Tool. It is intended that the ERICA Tool will form a component of the screening tier tool for conducting combined human and non-human assessments to be developed by STAR. Consequently, the STAR consortium will collaborate in the forthcoming update of the ERICA Tool anticipated to be released in autumn 2013. This update will take into account: lessons learnt during model inter-comparison exercises (e.g. the IAEA EMRAS programmes and the EURATOM PROTECT project), user feedback, and recent evaluations. See here for details and feedback form.

Posted by: Cath Barnett 9/1/2013

RESRAD training courses

Argonne National Laboratory will conduct a series of training courses on the use of RESRAD family of risk assessment codes from March 12-22, 2013. See http://web.ead.anl.gov/resrad/training/.

Posted by: Cath Barnett 19/12/2012

New TRS published

Guidelines for Remediation Strategies to Reduce the Radiological Consequences of Environmental Contamination. Technical Reports Series 475

IAEA EMRAS II Biota Modelling Group- questionnaire

Your views are required by IAEA EMRAS II Biota Modelling Group. The Biota Modelling Group is reviewing the requirements for dynamic modelling within environmental (i.e. wildlife) radiological assessments, together with an overview of available models. To help achieve this we are consulting with colleagues using a questionnaire. The questionnaire can be found here.
Note: Closing date Extended to 18th March 2011.

Posted by: Catherine Barnett

The next Training course will be held at CEH Lancaster on 12-14th October 2011.

Further information available here.

Posted by: Catherine Barnett

CEH Information Gateway

The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) is the UK's Centre of Excellence for integrated research in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their interaction with the atmosphere. The CEH Information Gateway is a new tool for finding, viewing and accessing CEH's data resources including radioecology datasets. To view available radioecological data type Radioecology into the Search box. More data will be added in the future - one of the intial datasets available is that for natural radionuclide concentrations in soil, sediment and water in England and Wales (see England & Wales EA for report Assessment of naturally occurring radionuclides in England and Wales describing these data).

13/12/2012

STAR Strategic Research Agenda

STAR (see info below) invites comments on its Strategic Research Agenda which proposes 15 major research topics in radioecology with the goals of improving research efficiency and more rapidly advancing the science.

Consultation closed.

Updated by: Catherine Barnett 12/10/2012

The Radioecology Exchange

STAR is an EC EURATOM funded project with objectives to integrate radioecology programmes in key European organisations, develop joint training programmes, manage and disseminate knowledge and conduct a focused research programme.

Please see the STAR Radioecology Network of Excellence website

for more information.

Updated by: Catherine Barnett 12/06/2012

Approaches to providing missing transfer parameter values in the ERICA Tool - How well do they work?

New paper available on-line evaluating the approaches used to provide missing values in the ERICA Tool.

Posted by: Catherine Barnett 12/06/12 Posted by: Catherine Barnett