The need for a system to protect the environment from ionising radiation is now generally recognised and there has been a considerable international and national effort on this issue over the last decade. The focus has been on collating relevant information and developing approaches to enable regulatory assessments. Alongside this, there has been extensive consultation with… Read more >>
Protection of the environment from radiation and reduced releases to the North East Atlantic were important topics at the meeting of the Radioactive Substances Committee (RSC) in the Oslo-Paris convention meeting hosted by Norway and held in Tromsø in January 2007. The main issue of discussion was how to implement the Sintra statement made in 1998 by the environmental… Read more >>