The European ALARA Network

The European ALARA Network (EAN) promotes the optimisation of radiation protection (keeping exposures As Low As Reasonably Achievable – ALARA) across Europe. It brings together professionals, regulators, and stakeholders to share experience, develop guidance, and support the practical implementation of ALARA principles in various sectors, including industry, medicine, research, and the environment.

Workshop’s impact

NASA, free to use under Unsplash licence. Context At the start of the EAN, feedback experience shows that there were in Europe a need for workshops which are neither a big congress nor a collection of working groups with lots of different meetings, rather meetings which over a few days provide a forum for a few dozen […]

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Working Group: ALARA for Radon At Work

  L. Davidson, 2020, Free to use under Unsplash Licence. Why a Working Group? Exposure to radon represents an important contribution to the exposure of the public and the workers to ionizing radiation. In Europe, the national regulations for the protection of workers against exposure to ionizing radiation and radon in particular have been updated […]

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Issue 47 – April 2022

You can access here the 47th issue of the European ALARA Network Newsletter.    Radiation Protection for ALARA implementation during MINERVA Design and Construction Phases; The United Kingdom Dental Guidance Note – 2nd edition; Irradiators with High Activity Sources to be Replaced Optimisation Actions of Remediation in a Legacy NORM site in Norway  Life of EAN and […]

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Legal Notice

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2022 January 28

You can download here the Administrative Board and the Steering Group meeting minutes (28 January 2022) and the documents discussed during the meetings EAN Administrative Board meeting minutes EAN Steering Group meeting minutes Documents discussed during the meeting:  Agenda of the meeting Final account 2021 and provisional account 2022 Activities of ICRP C4 and potential collaboration […]

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Issue 46 – November 2021

You can access here the 46th issue of the European ALARA Network Newsletter.    Theory and practice in the clean-up and support of the supervision of legacy sites in North-West Russia The implementation of the EU-BSS for NORM involving industries in the Italian context Aircrew exposure to cosmic radiation – Data update from France Feedback from […]

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2021 – June 8th & 9th

You can download here the Administrative Board meeting minutes (8 June), the Steering Group meeting minutes (8 and 9 June) and the documents discussed during the meetings EAN Administrative Board meeting minutes EAN Steering Group meeting minutes Documents discussed during the meeting:  Agenda of the meeting The ORPNET (presentation from Mr. Burcin Okyar, IAEA) EAN impact of […]

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Issue 45 – April 2021

You can access here the 45th issue of the European ALARA Network Newsletter.    The Graded approach for workplaces in the context of the implementation of Directive Euratom 2013/59 Contamination incidents during injection of radoopharmaceuticals an OTHEA/RELIR incident Reminder about the OTHEA/RELIR Action Plan to strengthen the radiological safety and security (of sources) in Switzerland (RADISS) […]

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2020 – November 17th & 19th

You can download here the Administrative Board meeting minutes (17 November), the Steering Group meeting minutes (17 and 19 November) and the documents discussed during the meetings EAN Administrative Board meeting minutes EAN Steering Group meeting minutes Documents discussed during the meeting Agenda of the meeting Elements of EAN budget 2020 and 2021 Nomination of […]

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Issue 44 – November 2020

You can access here the 44th issue of the European ALARA Network Newsletter.   key principles in radiation protection can also apply to protection from Covid new regulation for the protection against radon at work in France optimization, rethinking the art of reasonable – NEA workshop joint roadmap for radiation protection research – state of the […]

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