Issue |
Radioprotection
Volume 58, Number 3, July - September 2023
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Page(s) | 169 - 180 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2023019 | |
Published online | 14 September 2023 |
Article
The NERIS roadmap: research challenges in emergency preparedness, response and recovery
1
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), London, United Kingdom
2
National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSRD), Athens, Greece
3
Nuclear Protection Evaluation Centre (CEPN), Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
4
Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
5
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Oslo, Norway
6
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
7
Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Mol, Belgium
* Corresponding author: pascal.crouail@cepn.asso.fr
Received:
12
April
2023
Accepted:
22
May
2023
NERIS as a European Platform on Preparedness for Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Response and Recovery (EPR&R) has developed a roadmap setting out the key research challenges for radiation emergency preparedness, response and recovery. Research projects in this field have been summarised to demonstrate how important areas of development have been identified and addressed. Radiation EPR&R has a continuous need to evolve to meet societal demands, but also to keep pace with scientific and technological developments and opportunities and so the NERIS research priorities as published in the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) are kept under review. Three challenge areas have been identified covering the topics of radiological impact assessment, protective action strategies and establishing a transdisciplinary and inclusive framework for emergency preparedness, response and recovery. The importance of these challenge areas and the underlying key topics for NERIS have been mapped across to the Joint Radiation Protection Roadmap developed by the consortium of European radiation research platforms known as MEENAS. The war in Ukraine triggered a new round of revision of the SRA that resulted in the identification of four topics as new or revised challenges for the NERIS community. These updated challenges are: (1) optimisation of management strategies for the transition and recovery phase, (2) uncertainty quantification, data assimilation and monitoring strategies, (3) inverse modelling, and (4) lessons identified from Ukraine and implications for emergency preparedness. These four areas will form the priority research areas for the NERIS community to help advance radiation emergency preparedness to meet current challenges and needs that have been identified.
Key words: emergency planning / accident, management / accident, nuclear / radiation protection / recovery
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