Workshop reports

Workshop reports of the PROTECT project

Workshop 1 - Regulatory approaches and requirements

The workshop was held with environmental regulators, NGOs and some industry representation (although the focus of this first workshop was to elicit views from regulators). The aim was to discuss and explore in more detail areas relating to the protection of the environment and in particular obtain views on the following:

1. Expectations or requirements of environmental protection (as a whole)
2. Expectations or requirements of both chemical and radioactive approaches
3. Suitability of any approaches that derive numerical values for use as criteria or standards
4. Suitability of any numerical values currently applied as criteria or standards

1. Justification for regulating the nuclear industry
2. Alignment of chemical and radioactive substances regulation
3. Appropriate targets for protection
4. Demonstration of compliance against protection goals
5. Credibility of currently suggested benchmark values for ionising radiation and appropriateness of methods used to derive them
6. Treatment of background exposure within assessments