Summary of First Technical Meeting

Summary of the First EMRAS II Technical Meeting, IAEA Headquarters, Vienna from 19 to 23 January 2009

The IAEA's EMRAS II Programme was launched at its First Technical Meeting (TM) which was held at the IAEA's Headquarters in Vienna from 19 to 23 January 2009. EMRAS II continues some of the work of previous international programmes in the field of radioecological modelling.

The TM was attended by 110 participants from 38 Member States. Mr Gordon Linsley of the United Kingdom chaired the meeting.

Potential topics for the new EMRAS II Programme were presented to participants in a Programme Proposal. The ideas for the programme had been developed during 2008–2009 taking into account the work of the now completed first phase of EMRAS, including suggestions and views from a variety of sources. It is planned that EMRAS II will run for 3 years, from 2009 to 2011.

After discussion of the suggested topics during the TM Plenary Sessions, and subsequently in smaller groups, it was decided that the work of EMRAS II should be gathered into 3 Themes, under which 9 Working Groups were established as follows:

Reference Approaches for Human Dose Assessment

Reference Approaches for Biota Dose Assessment

Approaches for Assessing Emergency Situations

Detailed plans for each of these Working Groups, Working Group Minutes and presentations given during this meeting can be found on the Working Groups’ respective pages.

During the meeting a presentation outlining the possible establishment of an additional Working Group, namely, the Working Group for the Development and Testing of a Harmonized Approach for Assessing Human and Biota Impacts, was made.

Meetings of most of the Working Groups will be held during the inter-sessional period between the first and the next (second) EMRAS II Technical Meeting, which will again be held at IAEA Headquarters in Vienna from 25 to 29 January 2010.

For further information please contact C. Halsall.


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