Metrology for radiation protection: A new European network in the foundation phase
- 1Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Ionizing Radiation, Braunschweig, Germany (annette.roettger@ptb.de)
- 2Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, France (attila.veres@cea.fr)
- 3Cesky Metrologicky Institut, Czech Republic (vsochor@cmi.cz)
- 4Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile, Istituto Nazionale di Metrologia delle Radiazioni Ionizzanti, Italy (massimo.pinto@enea.it)
- 5Główny Urząd Miar, Poland (michal.derlacinski@gum.gov.pl)
- 6Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizica si Inginerie Nucleara "Horia Hulubei", Romania (razvan.ioan@nipne.ro)
- 7Institut za mjeriteljstvo Bosne i Hercegovine, Bosnia and Herzegovina (amra.sabeta@met.gov.ba)
- 8Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia (rbernat@irb.hr)
- 9Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire, France (christelle.adam-guillermin@irsn.fr)
- 10Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal (jgalves@ctn.tecnico.ulisboa.pt)
- 11Institut Jožef Stefan, Slovenia (denis.cindro@ijs.si)
- 12NPL Management Limited, United Kingdom (steven.bell@npl.co.uk)
- 13Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie, Centre d'Etude de l'Energie Nucléaire, Belgium (britt.wens@sckcen.be)
- 14Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten, Sweden (Linda.Persson@ssm.se)
- 15Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences - National Institute of thе Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Serbia (milosz@vin.bg.ac.rs)
- 16Säteilyturvakeskus, Finland (reetta.nylund@stuk.fi)
More than 23 million workers worldwide are exposed occupationally to ionizing radiation in the workplace and all people in the world are exposed to environmental radiation. Due to developments in healthcare and changes in living conditions, radiation exposure from artificial and natural sources has been increasing for years. Accurate measurement of radiation dose is key to ensuring safety, but there are two challenges to address. First, new standards and reference fields are needed due to the rapid developments in medical imaging, radiotherapy and industrial applications. Second, communication channels are needed to ensure that information on best practice in measurements reaches the people concerned effectively and quickly.
It is therefore necessary to provide access to identified problems and solutions on an international level. A European Metrology Network (EMN) under the roof of EURAMET is in the foundation phase prepared by the project supportBSS[1]. This project will prepare this future EMN by addressing this issue through the identification of stakeholder research needs and implementing a long-term ongoing dialogue between them and the metrology community. The EMN will serve as a single point of contact to address all metrological needs related to radiation protection and will relate to all environment processes in which ionising radiation and radionuclides are involved.
A Strategic Research Agenda and two roadmaps are under development, covering the metrology needs of both the Euratom Treaty and the EU Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM (laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionizing radiation). Furthermore, long-term knowledge-sharing and capacity building will be supported and a proposal for a joint and sustainable European metrology infrastructure is in the development. This will significantly strengthen radiation protection metrology and support radiation protection measures. The final goal of the network project is a harmonised, sustainable, coordinated, and smart specialised infrastructure to underpin the needs expressed in the European regulation for radiation protection.
[1] This project has received funding from the EMPIR programme co-financed by the Participating States and from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. 19NET03 supportBSS denotes the EMPIR project reference.
How to cite: Röttger, A., Veres, A., Sochor, V., Pinto, M., Derlacinski, M., Ioan, M.-R., Sabeta, A., Bernat, R., Adam-Guillermin, C., Gracia Alves, J. H., Glavič-Cindro, D., Bell, S., Wens, B., Persson, L., Živanović, M., and Nylund, R.: Metrology for radiation protection: A new European network in the foundation phase, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-82, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-82, 2020.
