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The 13th EAN Workshop, dedicated to "ALARA and the medical sector" will be held from 7th to 10th of June 2011 at the Oscarborg Fortress in the Oslofjord (Norway).
The Preliminary Programme is available and can be downloaded here.
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The 27th issue of the EAN Newsletter has now been published and can be read in the Newsletter section. You can also download it as a PDF document.- Details
KSU (Sweden) and CEPN (France) are organizing an European Course on "ALARA from Theory to Practice in Nuclear Installations" with the objective of providing up-to-date knowledge on the ALARA principle and its practical implementation through dedicated lectures and practical exercises.
The course will be held from 8 to 13 May 2011 in the KSU Barsebäck Training Centre, located on the site of the decommissioned Barsebäck Swedish NPP. The latter will be the place for practical exercises.
Registration is possible until the 15th of December 2010.
For more information: Download the first announcement of the course
Download the pre-registration form
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HPA (the UK) and CEPN (France) have launched the RELIR-OTHEA mirror-website. RELIR/OTHEA is provided by a network of French and English radiation protection stakeholders, who have a joint interest in sharing feedback and experience from radiological incidents, in order to improve the protection of persons working with similar radiation sources. More generally, the aim is to encourage good practices (especially the implementation of the ALARA/ALARP principle) within different sectors - medical and veterinary, industrial, research and education sectors, etc.
The incidents reports are anonymous and have been selected on the basis of those which provide interesting and useful lessons, to help others prevent such incidents and/or mitigate the consequences.
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The 13th EAN Workshop took place at the Oscarborg Fortress in the Oslofjord (Norway) from 7th to 10th of June 2011. It dealt with "ALARA and the medical sector".
The PowerPoint presentations are downloadable in the Workshop section. NEW: The PPT files reporting the discussions of the Working Group are also downloadable. They are the result of the Working Group discussions. They have not been modified by the Editorial Team.
The Conclusions of the Workshop are now available
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Between September 2009 and January 2010, EAN performed a survey on the national management of radon exposure.
In total, answers from the 17 following countries were received: Armenia, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK.
The detailed results of this survey can be found in the Surveys section.
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EAN publishes the first Special Issue of the ALARA Newsletter. This Special Issue is dedicated to the 12th EAN Workshop on "ALARA Issues arising for Safety and Security of Radiation Sources and Security Screening Devices".
This Special Issue can be downloaded here as a PDF document.
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The 26th issue of the EAN Newsletter has now been published and can be read in the Newsletter section. You can also download it as a PDF document.- Details
The EMAN project, supported by the European Commission, has been launched by the end of 2009. This project aims at establishing a sustainable European Medical ALARA Network (EMAN) where different stakeholders within the medical sector will have the opportunity to discuss and to exchange information on different topics related to the implementation of the ALARA principle in the medical field. In particular, the project includes the setup of three working group to discuss the following specific topics: optimisation of patient and occupational exposures in CT-procedures; optimization of patient and occupational exposure in interventional radiology; radiological safety for patients and personnel un activities using X-ray equipment outside the X-ray departments.
For more information, please visit the EMAN website: www.eman-network.eu
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The European Technical Centre of the international Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is organizing, in collaboration with Sizewell B NPP, the 2010 ISOE International Symposium on Occupational Exposure Management at Nuclear Facilities. The Symposium will be held in Cambridg, United Kingdom, from 17th to 19th November 2010. The main aims of the Symposium are:
- to provide a large forum of information exchange on occupational exposure concerns (practices, management and procedures, dose results and reduction, improvements of techniques and tools, etc.), and
- to allow vendors to present their recent experience and developments in radiation protection (measurement techniques, operating and plant design improvements, ALARA practices during opertion and outages, etc.) in a commercial exhibition.
For more information, you can download the leaflet of the seminar or visit the ISOE website.