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Growing IUR international visibility
2009-09-29
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The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the Union's website is now regularly visited by up to 12,000 visitors each month, demonstrating a growing general interest for Radioecology issues and the usefulness of our website for those who seek related information. It is also worth mentioning that during the last six months 16 new members, especially young scientists, joined the Union. It… Read more >>
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity affiliated to IUR
2009-09-13
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[ Memorandum of Understanding ]
Memorandum of Understanding signed on 11-28 April 2008
Considering that there is a mutual interest in promoting closer cooperation between IUR and the international scientific "Journal of Environmental Radioactivity" (JENR, Elsevier), Nicolette van Dijk, in quality of Publisher of JENR, and François Bréchignac, in quality of President of IUR, recently negotiated with…
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IUR establishes closer links with NREA
2009-01-19
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[ Towards federating Environmental Radioactivity Associations ]
On the event of the International Conference NRE VIII that was held in Buzios, Brazil, in October 2007, the President of IUR met the Executive Board of the Natural Radiation Environment Association (NREA) in order to explore opportunities for establishing closer links between the two sister Organisations. NREA is a recently established Association that aims to discuss and resolve issues…
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Reporting on the UNSCEAR 56 Session
2009-01-17
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[ Report from the IUR representative, R. Alexakhin ]
In his quality of Vice-President of IUR, Rudolf Alexakhin officially represented IUR at the last 56 UNSCEAR Session which was held in Vienna, 10-18 July 2008.
Within the various draft reports which have been discussed by the international delegations, essentially two reports have major radioecological relevance:
Health effects due to radiation from the Chernobyl…
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