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The biggest public opinion survey on Radon and NORM
We gladly announce that in Slovenia on 28th November, RadoNorm started the biggest investigation of people’s behaviour, attitudes and beliefs related to radon and NORM ever. Subsequently, surveys in Spain, Romania and Ireland will take place in the first week of...
Citizen Science Webinar
Citizen Science Webinar The first webinar for the open call for citizen science projects was held on European Radon Day (7th November). The call was introduced and explained by members of work package 6 and the project coordinator. Many representing institutions...
European Radon Day
The European Radon Association proclaimed 7 November “European Radon Day”. With good reason: the radioactive noble gas is among the leading causes of death from lung cancer after smoking. Radon occurs everywhere in soil. Larger amounts entering a building increase the...
Webinar for open call for citizen science projects
The RadoNorm open call for funding citizen science projects related to radon testing and/or radon mitigation in radon priority areas opens on 7th November 2022. A webinar on the same day at 1.00 pm (CET) is organised to provide information and support potential...
RadoNorm at ECREA2022 in Aarhus
One of the WP6 PhD students, S. Apers, presented her current study: “Facts or Feelings? Investigating the Role of Narratives in Radon Communication” at the European Conference of Communication in Aarhus, Denmark on 19-22 October 2022. Although results are preliminary,...
ePoster Presentation at the ICRP 2021+1 Symposium
The 6th International Symposium on the System of Radiological Protection, organised by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), will take place in Vancouver, Canada from 7th to 10th November 2022. This is an event to disseminate knowledge on...
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...
EAN Webinar
The European ALARA Network is holding a webinar on 8th December 2022 with the aim of examining how the optimisation principle has been applied in the case of NORM and radon (at workplace or in other circumstances) and whether the choices of exposure type and exposure...
2nd round of posters at ERPW 2022
A second poster presentation round ensued at the ERPW2022 in Estoril, with several of the RadoNorm delegates sharing their exciting progress.
Poster session at European Radiation Protection Week 2022
Several of the RadoNorm delegates presented posters at the ERPW in their respective fields and engaged in lively discussions with the delegates. Much interest was generated in the project’s achievements.
RadoNorm at European Radiation Protection Week 2022
The ERPW2022 conference kicked off on Sunday 9th October, with many participants from around the world gathering to discuss key issues in radiation protection. RadoNorm will be well-represented by 15 contributions (oral and poster presentations). We wish our delegates...