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Chapter 23
Recent Developments in Nuclear
and Radiological Emergency Management
in Europe
Abstract
The chapter outlines the Developments in Nuclear and Radiological
Emergency Management from the 4th to the present 7th European Framework
Program of the European Union.
Between 1994 and 2002, major progress was made with respect to the development
of new methods and information technology (IT) tools for nuclear and radiological
emergency management within the 4th and 5th Research Framework Programs of
the European Union. However, by the end of the research period, the tools were not
fully operational or to some extent difficult to distribute within the community.
For this reason, the European EURANOS project that started 2004 under the 6th
Research Framework Program aimed at improving the coherence and effectiveness
of European emergency management; furthermore, the long-term rehabilitation of
contaminated areas was to be given increased consideration. A total of 17 national
emergency organizations and 33 research institutions were involved in elaborating
an improved common basis of European emergency management and testing the
usefulness in demonstration projects. Particular emphasis was laid on the opera-
tional aspects of the methods and IT systems, and wishes and feedback of potential
end users were taken into account more strongly than before. Key results of the
project [
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] were—among others—the development of European manuals for pro-
tective measures and countermeasures in urban and agricultural environments, the
development of the two innovative simulation models ERMIN and AGRICP for
coping with persistent problems in radioactively contaminated areas, and the
development of the JAVA-based system JRodos that nowadays widely replaces
the previous Unix/Linux-based RODOS system.
