The Portuguese state-owned enterprise EDM - Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro S. A. is graciously lending its support to WP2 for the characterisation of NORM sites by giving access to sampling sites and data. EDM is responsible for the remediation of all uranium...
Research
Research stay at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
In April, PhD student S. Apers from WP6 of RadoNorm visited Prof. Dr. D. Hevey at Trinity College Dublin for intense planning and preparation for the field study work within Task 6.2. Meetings with various experts in the field of health psychology, behavioural change,...
Renowned Risk Governance Expert Prof. Ortwin Renn Visits RadoNorm’s WP6 to Tackle Societal Challenges of Radon and NORM Management
WP6 of RadoNorm recently hosted a scientific visit by Prof. Ortwin Renn. The WP6 team has achieved all expected milestones, but still faces some challenges for instance in investigating radiological risk perception related to geothermal energy installations or...
Open call for citizen science projects: Deadline 17 February 2023
RadoNorm has held two webinars to discuss the open call for funding citizen science projects: the first on 7 November 2022 (European Radon Day) and the second on 17 January 2023. Click on the links above to view the recordings. The deadline for the submission of...
Determining uranium speciation in soils and sediments impacted by weathering acid forming alum shale
PhD student Mila Kristiina Pelkonen and research scientist Estela Reinoso-Maset, both from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and postdoctoral researcher Gianni Vettese, from the University of Helsinki (UH), have recently been at one of the newest, most...
New scientific publication from Work Package 6
A new paper from WP6 has just been published in the Journal of Risk Research. The paper investigates how to improve methodology to measure public knowledge, behaviour, attitudes and feelings related to radon. The paper titled “Foxes caught in the same snare: a...
Methodology and Tools for NORM exposure sites characterisation
Work Package 2 has now made publicly available its developed Methodology and Tools/Registers for the identification and characterisation of exposure sites with naturally occurring radionuclide material (NORM). These can be easily used by various institutions in...
Citizen Science Projects on EU-Citizen.Science Database
RadoNorm citizen science projects are successfully registered and accepted in the eu-citizen.science database. EU-Citizen.Science is an online platform for sharing knowledge, tools, training and resources for citizen science – by the community, for the community. The...
New deliverable reports
RadoNorm published 2 new reports (D6.5 and D8.7), which were recently accepted by the European Commission. D6.5 is part of the radon communication study lead by health communication department at University of Antwerp, Belgium and psychology department at Trinity...
“Challenges of developing a comprehensive biokinetic model to assess embryo/fetus doses due to radon intakes by the mother” by Ämilie Degenhardt-Erbe
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...