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Environmental protection from ionising contaminants in the Arctic (EPIC)

The project
therefore aims to collate Funded by the ECs Inco-Copernicus Programme the EPIC project: collated information relating to the environmental transfer and fate
of selected radionuclides through aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in the Arctic; (ii)
identify suggested reference Arctic biota that can be used to evaluate potential dose rates to biota
in different terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments; (iii) model the uptake of a
suite of radionuclides to reference Arctic biota; (iv) development of a reference set ofdevelop a set  of  reference
dose models for reference Arctic biota; (viv) compilation compiled of data on dose-effects
relationships and assessments of potential radiological consequences for reference
Arctic biota; (vi) and integration of assessments of the environmental impact from
radioactive contamination with those for other contaminants.

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. The project worked closely with the FASSET consortium developing some joint databases.

Reports by the EPIC consortium