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EURADOS Annual Meeting – 24-27 February, 2025

The Annual Meeting of the European Radiation Dosimetry (EURADOS) group will take place at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Bucharest, Romania, from the 24-27 February 2025. EURADOS is a non-profit association for promoting research and development and European cooperation in the field of the dosimetry of ionising radiation.

Its aims are to:

  • Increase the scientific understanding of the dosimetry of ionising radiation;
  • Foster the technical development of dosimetric methods and instrumentation and their implementation in routine dosimetry; and
  • Harmonise the dosimetric procedures used within the EU and their conformance with international practices.

To this end, its network includes experts, reference and research laboratories, and dosimetry services. This enables appropriate specialist groups to be formed to solve problems or promote research identified within EURADOS or upon request from external bodies.

The annual meeting combines networking with scientific presentations, and gives a central role for working group activities. During the event attendees will be able to exchange experiences, learn and discover new scientific work, network with peers, and set up actions to improve and harmonise dosimetry in all applications.

As part of the schedule, Working Group 3 (WG3) covers Environmental Dosimetry. The aim of WG3 is to provide information about the correct measurement of ambient dose and dose rate and radioactivity concentrations for different scenarios such as routinary emissions from nuclear installations, nuclear emergencies with local impact and nuclear disaster with transboundary implications, and also natural radioactivity scenarios such as radon dosimetry based on activity concentration measurements.

As part of WG3, Task Groups are formed and of particular interest is SG3 which focuses on “Radon in Metrology and Field Measurements”. SG3 was formed to:

  • Collaborate with the traceRadon European Project (which started in June 2020), which has an emphasis on climate change and radiation protection; and
  • Provide support in the usage of the radon/progeny dose conversion factors published by ICRP in dose assessment at homes and at workplaces and collaboration between radon metrology (WG3) and radon dosimetry (WG7) in order to provide to the community guidelines and recommendations.

EURADOS is a network of 83 European institutions (voting members) and more than 650 scientists (associate members). To register for the annual meeting, click here.

ERA welcomes membership applications from those who have an active interest in the field of radon