Workshops

Feed back experience shows that there is in Europe a need for Workshops which are neither a big congress nor a collection of working groups with lots of different meetings, but which over a few days provide a forum for a few dozen experts to exchange feedback experience and to identify problems that need further research or development. Therefore the Network has organised and will continue to organise such type of Workshop once a year.
The subject is selected in order to cover domains where the Network Steering Committee Group estimates that many improvements in terms of ALARA implementation may be found. All papers are invited presentations. To promote discussions, appropriate time is made available for work in small groups and the number attending the workshop is limited to a few dozens experts. The language of the Workshops is English.
At the end of each Workshop the chairpersons and the working groups propose to the participants some recommendations to the EC and national regulatory bodies and other stakeholders corresponding to the feedback from the sessions of the Workshop. These recommendations are validated by the Network Steering Committee Group and send to the Commission and to other appropriate stakeholders.

  1. « ALARA and Decommissioning », Saclay, France, December 1997
  2. « Good Radiation Practices in Industry and Research », Chilton, UK, November 1998
  3. « Managing Internal Exposure », Neuherberg, Germany, November 1999
  4. « Management of Occupational Radiological and Non-radiological Risks: Lessons to be Learned », Antwerp, Belgium, November 2000
  5. « Industrial Radiography: Improvements in Radiation Protection », Rome, Italy, October 2001
  6. « Occupational Exposure Optimisation in the Medical and the Radiopharmaceutical Sectors », Madrid, Spain, October 2002
  7. « Decommission of Installations and Site Remediation », Arnhem, The Netherlands, October 2003
  8. « Occupational Radiological Protection Control through Inspection and Self-assessment », Uppsala, Sweden, September 2004
  9. « Occupational Exposure to Natural Radiation », Augsburg, Germany, October 2005
  10. « Experience and new Developments in Implementing ALARA in Occupational, Patient and Public Exposures », Prague, Czech Republic, 12-15 September 2006
  11. « ALARA in Radioactive Waste Management », Athens, Greece, 9-11 April 2008
  12. « ALARA issues arising for Safety and Security of Radiation Sources and Security Screening Devices », Vienna, Austria, 21-23 October 2009
  13. « ALARA and the Medical Sector », Oscarborg Fortress, Norway, 7-10 June 2011
  14. « ALARA in existing exposure situations », Dublin Castle, Ireland, 4-6 September 2012
  15. « Improving ALARA Culture through Education and Training », Rovinj, Croatia, 7-9 May 2014
  16. « ALARA in Industrial Radiography », Bern, Switzerland, 14-16 March 2016
  17. « ALARA in Emergency Exposure Situations », Lisbon, Portugal, 15-17 May 2017
  18. « ALARA for Decommissioning and Site Remediation », Marcoule, France, 11-13 March 2019
  19. « Innovative ALARA Tools », Athens, Greece, 27-29 November 2019
  20. « ALARA for interventional radiology and nuclear medicine », Vienna, Austria, 2-4 October 2022
  21. « Optimization of the transport of radioactive material« , Petten, The Netherlands, 23-25 April 2025

3rd Workshop on « Managing Internal Exposures »

3 avril 2006

« Managing Internal Exposures », Neuherberg, Germany, November 1999

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The European ALARA Network held its third Workshop devoted to « Managing Internal Exposure » in November 1999 at Bundesamt fur Stralhenschutz (BfS), Institut fur Stralhenhygiene facilities in Munich. The 80 participants from 12 countries were specialists of internal dosimetry, representatives of regulatory bodies, managers in charge of risks management within different types of facilities (nuclear industry, phosphate industry, radio-pharmaceutical industry, , nuclear medicine services in hospital…). More than thirty oral presentations and twenty posters gave rise to very fruitful discussions and led to a final panel session where the most important lessons learned from the Workshop were formulated into conclusions and recommendations.

 
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2nd Workshop on « Good Radiation Practices in Industry and Research »

3 avril 2006

« Good Radiation Practices in Industry and Research », Chilton, UK, November 1998


The second EAN Workshop was attended by 60 participants from 11 countries with a good mix of operators, health physics experts and regulators; all with interests in the industrial and research sectors. This paper summarises some of the highlights and the recommendations to the European Commission that arose from the discussions.

 
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1st Workshop on « ALARA and Decommissioning »

28 mars 2006

« ALARA and Decommissioning », Saclay, France, December 1997

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Optimisation of radiological protection has been shown to be a routine feature during major decommissioning operations in the nuclear industry sector. ALARA is not only considered as a principle but corresponds also to practices that determine important steps during the planning, the operation and feedback evaluation.

The presentations during the workshop described a wide variety of national approaches which depend on the legal requirements, the availability of funds, the industrial resources and, last but not least, the waste disposal routes in the different European countries. It was also shown that, as far ALARA implementation is concerned, the reality is still far from being ideal everywhere, and that a lot of problems have still to be solved.

If you would like a copy of one presentation, just ask us by e-mail; we will send it to you by post. If you would like to have a copy of the proceedings, they are available at the European Commission in its publication Radiation Protection issue108 ISBN 92-828-7107-X. (Luxembourg Office for Official Publications of the European Communities)

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