The European ALARA Network

Download the 17^th issue in PDF format

First of all, the 17^th issue of the Newsletter presents the new legal entity of the European ALARA Network. The second paper deals with the implementation of the EC Council Directive 90/641 EURATOM on radiation protection of outside workers following by the announcement of the corresponding EC/DGTREN seminar. Then, the new ICRP draft document on optimisation of protection is presented. The fourth paper summarizes a thesis on optimization of patient doses linked to image quality in vascular radiology. An analysis of a radiological incident concerning a level gauge system becomes the incident case study n° 17. Finally the last announcement and preliminary program of the 9th EAN Workshop in Augsburg are available with the registration form.

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The 18^th issue of the Newsletter presents in its first article the summary and recommendations from the 9^th EAN Workshop on “Occupational Exposure to Natural Radiation” (Augsburg, October 2005). The second article presents the conclusions and recommendations from the Seminar on the implementation of Directive 90/641 EURATOM on the radiation protection of outside workers (Luxembourg, November 2005). Then two articles analyse a radiological incident: the analysis of an incident involving Radioactive Lightning Conductors in Croatia becomes the case study n° 18 and the case study n° 19 deals with radionuclide gauges in rough industrial environments.

Finally, the first announcement for the 10th EAN Workshop on “Experience and new developments in implementing ALARA in occupational, public and patient exposures” (Prague, Czech Republic – 12-15 September 2006) is available.

Download the 1^st issue in PDF format

The 1^st issue of the ALARA Newsletter covers the establishment of the European ALARA Network, as well as its main goals and objectives. It also provides an opportunity to remind readers of some of the basics concerning the ALARA management of the radiation risks, to describe the regulatory perspective concerning the implementation of ALARA in Swedish nuclear power plants, and to point out that the non nuclear sector provides some ALARA challenges for the future in Germany and the UK.