TY - JOUR
T1 - Radioecology in CONFIDENCE: Dealing with uncertainties relevant for decision making
AU - Raskob, Wolfgang
AU - Al Mahaini, Talal
AU - Beresford, Nicholas A.
N1 - Score=10
PY - 2018/7/24
Y1 - 2018/7/24
N2 - The CONFIDENCE project is performing research on uncertainties in emergency management and post-accident recovery. It concentrates on the early and transition phases of an emergency, but considers also longer-term decisions made during these phases. To ensure success, the project brings together expertise from four European Radiation Protection Research Platforms (NERIS, MELODI, ALLIANCE and EURADOS) and also from the area of social sciences and humanities.
This paper presents an overview of the CONFIDENCE project with a focus on CONFIDENCE's consideration of the radioecology required to support emergency management and post-accident recovery. For instance, operational decisions concerning land and foodchain management rely on radioecological models that are at present mostly based on simple, but highly uncertain, transfer ratios to predict contamination in foodstuffs.
CONFIDENCE will investigate if process-based models are better suited to reducing uncertainties associated with empirical ratio based models. Model improvements and uncertainty reduction might be also possible by better evaluating past experience from Chernobyl and Fukushima.
AB - The CONFIDENCE project is performing research on uncertainties in emergency management and post-accident recovery. It concentrates on the early and transition phases of an emergency, but considers also longer-term decisions made during these phases. To ensure success, the project brings together expertise from four European Radiation Protection Research Platforms (NERIS, MELODI, ALLIANCE and EURADOS) and also from the area of social sciences and humanities.
This paper presents an overview of the CONFIDENCE project with a focus on CONFIDENCE's consideration of the radioecology required to support emergency management and post-accident recovery. For instance, operational decisions concerning land and foodchain management rely on radioecological models that are at present mostly based on simple, but highly uncertain, transfer ratios to predict contamination in foodstuffs.
CONFIDENCE will investigate if process-based models are better suited to reducing uncertainties associated with empirical ratio based models. Model improvements and uncertainty reduction might be also possible by better evaluating past experience from Chernobyl and Fukushima.
KW - Uncertainties
KW - Decision support
KW - Emergency
KW - Post-accident
KW - Radioecological modelling
KW - Transfer to human food
KW - Process-based models
KW - Countermeasure strategies
KW - Atmospheric ensembles
UR - http://ecm.sckcen.be/OTCS/llisapi.dll/open/30478350
U2 - 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2018.07.017
DO - 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2018.07.017
M3 - Article
SN - 0265-931X
VL - 192
SP - 399
EP - 404
JO - Journal of environmental radioactivity
JF - Journal of environmental radioactivity
ER -