Working Group 4

Biota Modelling

Objectives

The aim of the work was to improve Member States' capabilities for protection of the environment by comparing and validating models being used, or developed, for biota dose assessment (that may be used) as part of the regulatory process of licensing and compliance monitoring of authorised releases of radionuclides.

Documents

• First Working Group Meeting held from 19 to 23 January 2009, IAEA headquarters, Vienna:
  
  Minutes; Presentation 1
  
• Second Working Group Meeting held from 20 to 21 July 2009, IAEA headquarters, Vienna:
  
  Minutes;
  
• Third Working Group Meeting held from 25 to 29 January 2010, IAEA headquarters, Vienna:
  
  Minutes; Participants List; Presentations: Sediment Profiles;
  Screening Assessments; Update; VIC; Analogue Approach; Results; Overview; NRPA; EA (1); EA (2); ANSTO; SCK/CEN; Demokritos; KAERI; SUJB; ANL; CEH; UoL; Little Forest; Wetlands
  
  
• Fourth Working Group Meeting held jointly with Working Groups 5 and 6 from 6 to 9 September 2010, IAEA headquarters, Vienna:
  
  Minutes; Presentations: Little Forest Burial Ground; Wetland Scenario
  
  
• Fifth Working Group Meeting held from 24 to 28 January 2011, IAEA headquarters, Vienna:
  
  Minutes; Presentations: ERICA; SCK/CEN; CEH; RESRAD-BIOTA; BARC; SUBJ; K-BIOTA; U-235 series; LFBG Scenario Overview;
  LFBG Results; LFBG Statistical Analyses; Heterogeneous Media; Dynamic Modelling; Wetlands Scenario; Wetlands Instructions; Wetlands Report Sheet (xls)
  
  
• Sixth Working Group Meeting held from 18 to 19 June 2011, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:
  
  Minutes; Presentations: Defining an Atmospheric Source Term; Doses and Approach; Approach and Results; Some Initial Results;
  Dose Modelling Comparison; Review of Dynamic Models
  

For further programme-specific information please contact MODARIA or EMRAS II.

Contacts

• Working Group Leader: Mr Nick Beresford, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), UK
• Scientific Secretary: Mr Sergey Fesenko, IAEA, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications