Task Groups

Radioecological sensitivity: an operational tool in federating radioecological knowledge
2008-03-31 >> Active Task Groups

[ TG Leaders: C. Mercat (catherine.mercat-rommens@irsn.fr) & F. Carini (franca.carini@unicatt.it) ]
During the last decades, various needs have evolved concerning radioecology. The scientific needs are now requiring to take due account of uncertainties, modern techniques of spatialization, spatial and temporal variabilities, etc... The society needs require to be appropriately captured within the methodologies of risk assessment. The operational tools for decision making need, within all… Read more >>

Radioecology of Rice
2008-03-29 >> Active Task Groups

[ Leaders: S. Uchida (s_uchida@nirs.gov.jp) & H. Tsukada (hirof@ies.org.jp) ]
This Task Group to deal with radioecology of rice has been launched at the 3rd International Conference on contaminants in soil Environments in Australiasian-Pacific Regions that was organized in Beijing, in November 2003. It is co-chaired by Shigeo Uchida from NIRS (Japan) and Hirofumi Tsukada from IES (Japan), with initial members from China, Korea and Japan. The objectives are to… Read more >>

Radioecology and non-radioactive pollutants
2008-03-23 >> Active Task Groups

[ Taskgroup leader : Hildegarde Vandenhove, hvandenh@sckcen.be ]
This Task Group is coming forth from the Task Group launched during the IUR-SETAC Meeting on the Application of Radioecology to Other Contaminants (AROC), held in Antwerp (Belgium), February 2002. The aim was to bring together experts involved in experimental research and model development in closely related areas of environmental chemistry and toxicology. Pollution science combines a… Read more >>

Protection of the environment
2008-03-22 >> Active Task Groups

[ Task Group Leader: David Copplestone, david.copplestone@environment-agency.gov.uk ]
Background Following the publication of the Task Group's report "Protection of the Environment: Current Status and Future Work", the main emphasis of this task group has changed to one that focuses on the identification and prioritisation of the research requirements in the field of protection of the environment from ionising radiation. There is a pressing need to identify and help to… Read more >>

Artic and Antartic Regions
2008-03-21 >> Active Task Groups

Posted by - Fri 03/21/08

[ Task group leader: Mark Dowdall, Mark.Dowdall@nrpa.no ]
The International Union of Radioecology’s’ Task Group: Arctic and Antarctic Regions was for a number of years an active forum for those involved in polar radioecology although, primarily due to the heavy workloads of those involved as opposed to lack of interest, relatively dormant for the past two years. This Task Group is now being “relaunched” or reactivated with… Read more >>

Radioecology and waste
2008-03-20 >> Active Task Groups

[ Tempory Taskgroup leader : Rodolfo Avila, rodolfo.avila@facilia.se & Irene Zinger, irene@facilia.se) ]
The Task Group has been launched during the Workshop "Mobility in Biosphere of Iodine, Technetium, Selenium and Uranium" co-organized by IUR and ANDRA in Nancy (France), April 2002. The participants gathered around a consensus on the high priority for radioecology to tackle the problem of the management of high level radioactive waste. The objective of this Task Gorce is to promote the… Read more >>

Speciation
2008-03-19 >> Active Task Groups

[ Taskgroup leader : Brit Salbu, brit.salbu@umb.no ]
The main objective of this new Task Group is to strengthen the competence internationally on environmental impact assessment. This is to be achieved based on using adequate techniques to characterize radionuclides species, linking and quantifying radionuclides species to sources and release scenarios, linking and quantifying radionuclides species to environmental airborne, marine or… Read more >>

Radioecological Parameter Values - Update of TRS 364 (IAEA/IUR)
2007-08-29 >> Task Groups in the termination phase

[ TG Leaders: P.Calmon (philippe.calmon@irsn.fr) & G. Voigt (g.voigt@iaea.org) ]
This is a joint IAEA/IUR Task Group which is embeded in the IAEA EMRAS Programme: Working Group on revision of the Handbook of parameter values for the prediction of radionuclide transfer in temperate environments, IAEA-TRS No. 364 Next Meeting The next meeting of this Working Group will be held in conjunction with the Fifth Combined Meeting of the EMRAS Programme at the Agency's… Read more >>

Task Group on Ethics, Philosophy and Policy
2003-06-25 >> Task Groups in the termination phase

[ Taskgroup leader : Deborah Oughton, deborah.oughton@ikb.nlh.no ]
The main aim of this Task group is to provide a forum for IUR members to discuss a variety of issues concerned with the interaction of scientific research and policy making. The Group's area of interest covers philosophical questions such as the relationship and demarcation between "fact and value", the role of ethical and value judgements on decision-making and risk perception… Read more >>

Mediterranean Fruit Radioecology
2003-06-25 >> Task Groups in the termination phase

The activity of this Task Group has been closely associated to the IAEA BIOMASS Programme that was recently ended. Although there is still a need to complete radioecological data base, and to expand to better knowledge on radionuclides transfer to fruits in all climatic conditions, the reduced present activity in this field does not justify today the maintenance of an IUR Task… Read more >>