European ALARA Network

The 13^th EAN Workshop, dedicated to "ALARA and the medical sector" will be held from 7^th to 10^th of June 2011 at the Oscarborg Fortress in the Oslofjord (Norway).

The 1^st announcement is now available and can be downloaded here.

The following definition has been proposed by the EAN Working Group on ALARA Culture. It has been endorsed by the members of the EAN Steering Group.

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. 

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

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.

The 12^th EAN Workshop took place in Vienna (Austria) from 21^st to 23^rd October 2009. It dealt with "ALARA issues arising for Safety and Security of Radiation Sources and Security Screening Devices".

The full papers and PowerPoint presentations are downloadable in the Workshop section.

NEW: The Conclusions of the 12^th EAN Workshop are now available in the Workshop section. 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 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 17^th to 19^th 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 first announcement and call for papers or visit the ISOE website.