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CONFIDENCE dissemination meeting: Summary on the scenario-based workshop

¹ VUJE – VUJE, a.s., Trnava, Slovak Republic
² PHE – Public Health England, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Didcot, UK
³ CEH – UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster, UK
⁴ BfS − Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Neuherberg, Germany
⁵ KNMI – Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Utrechtseweg, The Netherlands
⁶ HMGU – Helmholtz Zentrum München–German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
⁷ IRSN – Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
⁸ Met Office, Exeter, UK
⁹ CIEMAT – Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain
¹⁰ KIT – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
¹¹ NMBU/CERAD − Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Centre for Environmental Radioactivity, Ås, Norway
¹² SCK-CEN − Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Mol, Belgium
¹³ RIVM – National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
¹⁴ UZ – University of Zürich, Department of Physics, Science Faculty, Zürich, Switzerland

^* Corresponding author: tatiana.duranova@vuje.sk

Abstract

The CONFIDENCE dissemination workshop “Coping with uncertainties for improved modelling and decision making in nuclear emergencies” was held in December 2–5, 2019 (Bratislava, Slovak Republic). About 90 scientists and decision makers attended the workshop. The dissemination workshop allowed the presentation of the CONFIDENCE project results, demonstration of the applicability of the developed methods and tools in interactive discussion sessions and the collection of feedback from the participants. The results were disseminated not only in the form of presentations and posters but also through interactive workshops where all participants were involved in round table working groups. A fictive accidental release scenario taking place at a nuclear power plant was developed and used by each work package in the workshop to provide the basis for interactive sessions and discussions.