Working Group 2

Reference Approaches to Modelling for Management and Remediation at NORM and Legacy Sites

Objectives

The Working Group focused on the development of reference approaches for NORM and legacy sites for the assessment of environmental impacts and risks. The effect of remediation measures was taken into consideration and the group's work concentrated on the areas affected by residues of the mining industry (phosphorus, uranium, metals, etc.) and on contaminations due to past activities.

Documents

• First Working Group Meeting held from 19 to 23 January 2009, IAEA headquarters, Vienna:
  
  Minutes; Presentation 1; Presentation 2; NRPA Proposal for a new WG
  
• Second Working Group Meeting held from 23 to 25 September 2009, IAEA headquarters, Vienna:
  
  Minutes; Presentations: Norway; Russia; Belgium; Argentina; Poland; Brazil; Hungary; EMRAS I NORM; PC-CREAM; US EPA; Ecolego tool; ERICA tool (.ppt); RESRAD-OFFSITE; RESRAD code; CROM code;
  Draft General Assessment Methodology Process; Nuclear Legacy subgroup; Assessments FEPs; NORM subgroup
  
• Third Working Group Meeting held from 25 to 29 January 2010, IAEA headquarters, Vienna:
  
  Minutes; Participants List; Presentations: Available Models;
  Regulatory Examples; Ukraine; Compostilla; Belgium; Olen; Tessenderlo; Katina; Zvezda; Gela (1); Gela (2); Land Use; France; TECDOC; RESRAD; GAMP
  
• Fourth Working Group Meeting and Site Visit held from 27 September to 1 October 2010, Limoges, France:
  
  Minutes; Presentations: AREVA-1; AREVA-2; IRSN Involvement; Limousine sites; ENRE in China; ReCLAIM; Gela site; GAMP; Maralinga; Soeve; Belgium; Botuxim
  
  
• Fifth Working Group Meeting held from 24 to 28 January, 2011, IAEA headquarters, Vienna:
  
  Minutes; Presentations: Gela RESRAD-OFFSITE; GAMP on Gela Site; "Zvezda" Eleshniva; Monitoring data Bellezane;
  Possible scenarios Bellezane; Bellezane Site; RESRAD-OFFSITE code; Biota assessment approach Slovenia; Possible venues Belgium; Possible venues Bulgaria; Bayan Obo and Baotou China;
  Navajo Abandoned U Mines; U Mining Los Gigantes; Environmental remediation Ukraine; SATURN; RSLS;
  Links between ROAM and SS; Role of guideline levels; Plans for a final report
  
  
• Sixth Working Meeting held from 4 to 7 October 2011, Federal Agency of Nuclear Control (FANC) in Brussels, Belgium:
  
  Minutes; Presentations: Overview Olen; Site Visit UMICORE;
  NORM in TC; OVAM Overview; Background Subtraction

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

Contacts

• Working Group Leader: Ms Astrid Liland, Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA), Norway
• Scientific Secretary: Ms Virginia Koukouliou, IAEA, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security