On April 20th I had the opportunity to present my RadoNorm Early Career Researcher Project and the challenges we have been facing to develop a biokinetic model to assess embryo/fetus doses due to radon intakes by the mother at the Conference of the Canadian...
Research
New scientific article on the perspectives of radon
A new scientific article, as a result of the RadoNorm project, was just published in International Journal of Public Health (Impact Factor: 3.38). The article “Cure or Carcinogen? A Framing Analysis of European Radon Spa Websites”, is written by WP6 members: Robbe...
Deadline for participation in NORM e-survey is prolonged
Regulators, industry operators and experts across Europe are invited to participate in a NORM survey of the RadoNorm project. The survey is dedicated to naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), with the main objective of gathering specific valuable...
New scientific article published in the frame of RadoNorm
RadoNorm published a new article “Societal aspects of NORM: An overlooked research field” written by Catrinel Turcanu, Tanja Perko, Melisa Muric, Jelena Mrdakovic Popic, Robbe Geysmans and Nadja Železnik in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. The article is...
PhD position funded by RadoNorm project available
Department of Astronautical, Electric and Energy Engineering (DIAEE) at Sapienza University in Rome, based on agreement with Istituto Superiore di Sanità has a 3 years vacant PhD position funded by EU-funded project RadoNorm. The PhD position will be focusing on...
RadoNorm – 1st PhD/ECR Day
On 15th of April first PhD and Early Carrier Researcher event was organized in which students shortly report about the objectives of their work, the plan for research and current progress. In total 10 students presented their activities in different institutions which...
Europe’s fight against cancer
On February 3rd, the EU Commission adopted and published its strategy to fight cancer, "Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan". The plan is divided into four action areas: prevention, early detection of cancer, Diagnosis and treatment and Improve quality of life. The plan is...
RadoNorm at SAFECAST 10th Anniversary
RadoNorm recognised as an important project for promoting citizen science in radon at the round table on ‘How has Safecast influenced research, policies and practices in emergency management’ of the SAFECAST 10th Anniversary available on youtube...
Communication of radon in homes: IRPA 2015 conference
Tanja Perko, SCK.CEN, WP6 leader in RadoNorm presenting the first preliminary results on the communication of radon in homes with pitfalls and recommendations. The presentation is given at IRPA15 conference, which is online event, based in Seoul, Korea: see more at...
RadoNorm public opinion survey is ongoing
Data collection for the 2020 Barometer in Belgium is currently ongoing and is carried out by the market research firm Kantar Belgium using a mail-to-web data collection method. The survey studies the attitudes, beliefs and risk perceptions of Belgians concerning...