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The NERIS platform aims to maintain collaboration momentum and aggregate R&D activities in Europe to develop a joint European approach in responding to and recovering from nuclear and radiological emergencies. The platform encourages stakeholder cooperation, facilitates access to expertise and technology, and promotes confidence building.
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NERIS Platform An attempt to enhance European response to and recovery from radiological emergencies www.eu-neris.net Raimo Mustonen, STUK NERIS – ICRP Workshop 6-8 February 2012, Bratislava NERIS – ICRP, Bratislava, 6-8 February 2012
The European Platform on Preparedness for Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Response and Recovery Why NERIS ? • Real need and desire to maintain the collaboration momemtum gained during the EURANOS project in 2004-2009 • Tendency of the EC to aggregate R&D activities in Europe under lager platforms (Technology Platforms) • Mission orientation of the platforms: • “European need, challenge or problem, rather than simply seek to implement a technology. That is to say, the focus must be on the overall innovation challenge, including its social- economic- legislative- political- implementational aspects, rather than only the technological issues” (EURAB 04.010, European Research Advice Board) NERIS – ICRP, Bratislava, 6-8 February 2012
Why NERIS ? • Emergency management includes all these aspects (social, economical, legislative, political and implementational, and also technological) • Europe: an array of countries with various cultural backgrounds and differences in administrative culture and legislation • Europe needs more coherent response to nuclear emergencies • Examples: Fukushima, I-131 release in Budapest, (Chernobyl) NERIS – ICRP, Bratislava, 6-8 February 2012
Mission of NERIS • Confidence building • Encouragement of different stakeholders to co-operate • Facilitate access to expertise and technology and maintain competence for the benefit of European countries and citizens NERIS – ICRP, Bratislava, 6-8 February 2012
Vision of NERIS • by 2015, the self-sustaining association for development of the joint European approach in responding to and recovering from nuclear and radiological emergencies exists, and • by 2020, all European organisations being members of NERIS are sharing common views and common approaches and developing and using compatible technology and methods for consequence management of the emergencies NERIS – ICRP, Bratislava, 6-8 February 2012
Strategic Research Agenda of NERIS • Atmospheric & aquatic modelling – Needs for improvement • Key Topic 1: Atmospheric dispersion modelling • Key Topic 2: Aquatic dispersion modelling • Better dose assessments and decision support based on improved knowledge: source term, scenarios, etc. • Key Topic 3: Improvement of existing Decision Support Systems • Key Topic 4: Data mining, information gathering and exchange including providing information to stakeholders and mass media • Key Topic 5: Usage of the existing tools in the best possible way • Stakeholder involvement and local preparedness and communication strategies. • Key Topic 6. Stakeholder engagement and dialogue • Key Topic 7: Social media/networking technology NERIS – ICRP, Bratislava, 6-8 February 2012
Status of the NERIS Platform (12/2011) • College 1 : • CIEMAT (Spain) • UVM (Germany) • NRPA (Norway) • Vuje (Slovakia) • HPA (UK) • Institute for Nuclear Research (Romania) • RIVM (Netherlands) • STUK (Finland) • SNSA (Slovenia) • BfS (Germany) • ASN (France) • EVIRA (Finland) • ISS (Italy) • DEMA (Denmark) • IRSN (France) • RIKILT (Netherlands) • DZZZ (Croatia) • NAEA (Poland) • APA (Portugal) • SURO (Czech Republic) • College 2: • Risø (Denmark) • IAE POLATOM (Poland) • KIT (Germany) • AIT (Austria) • CEPN (France) • IFIN-HH (Romania) • Mutadis (France) • UCEWP (Ukraine) • UPM (Spain) • ANCCLI (France) • PDC (Denmark) • UoM (United Kingdom) • NRG (Netherlands) • SCK.CEN (Belgium) • IKE (Germany) • UMB (Norway) • UOI (Greece) • RIR (Belarus) • PMA (France) • AgroParisTech (France) • 40 member organisations • 20 in college 1 (authorities, TSOs, operators, professional organizations) • 20 in college 2 (research institutes/universities, consultants, local and national stakeholders, NGOs) NERIS – ICRP, Bratislava, 6-8 February 2012