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The third General Assembly of the NERIS Platform will be held on the 15th of May 2012 (12.30 - 2.00 pm) in Glasgow (Carron room, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Exhibition Way, G3 8YW, Glasgow), at the occasion of the 13th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA).
The agenda of the meeting: Agenda_3rdGeneralAssembly
Dear colleagues,
We would like to kindly inform you about the forthcoming Training Course on "Preparedness and Response for Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies" organised by SCK•CEN, the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre in the framework of the European platform NERIS on emergency and post-accident preparedness and response.
The course will take place on 1-5 October, 2012 in Mol, Belgium.
The first NERIS Workshop on "Preparedness for Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Response and Recovery: Implementation of the ICRP Recommendations" has been organised in Bratislava, Slovak Republic between the 6th and 8th of February 2012. 88 persons from 26 different countries participated.
To download the document presented during the meeting, please click on 'Presentation'.
The third issue has been released: Neris NEWSLETTER 3_December 2011
A NERIS RTD Workshop has been organised to address new and emerging challenges and research needs in the field of preparedness for nuclear and radiological emergency response and recovery (including discussions on the first lessons learnt from the Fukushima accident).
This RTD Workshop took place on the 23rd of September 2011 in the SCK.CEN facilities in Brussels (Belgium).
Presentations made during the meeting:
Introduction by the NERIS President
Perspectives regarding the EC Framework Programme
The minutes of the meeting: Minutes_RTDWorkshop
During the International Conference on Radioecology and Environmental Radioactivity, one session dealt with 'Emergency preparedness, rehabilitation and management'. Some of the papers presented during the conference are downloadable at the following link:
For more information on the situation in Japan, please visit the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency website - http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/ - and the IAEA website - http://www.iaea.org/
A special issue about the key results of the EURANOS European project (2004-2009) has been released and is now on-line on the Radioprotection website: