Current Challenges in Radiation Protection
Conference Proceedings
Reykjavík, August 22nd - 25th, 2011

Below, you will find the full paper, presentation overheads or poster for almost all presentations given. You can find the conference program here (PDF) and the book of abstracts here (PDF). You can also download the whole collection in a single zipped file here (ZIP).

Session 1: Bo Lindell Lecture

Jack Valentin, formerly at ICRP - Past, present, and future problems -are there any solutions?
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Session 2: Challenges in Radiation Protection

Christopher Clement, ICRP - International Commission on Radiological Protection: Challenges and opportunities in the next 20 years
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Renate Czarwinski, IAEA - Challenges in radiation safety from an international perspective
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Session 3: Challenges, continued

Ted Lazo - The changing world of radiological protection: Challenges and opportunities from an NEA perspective
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Mike Boyd, Environmental Protection Agency, USA - EPA's role in U.S. radiation protection: past successes and Challenges Ahead
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Kenneth R. Kase, IRPA Challenges and Opportunities for Radiation Protection-2011
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Session 4: EU-BSS

Augustin Janssens, EU - Draft Revised EU BSS: Part I, Existing and Emergency Exposure Situations
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Kaare Ulbak, SIS, Denmark - Draft Revised EU BSS: Part II, Planned Exposure Situations
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Session 5: Nordic  Nuclear  Safety  Research (NKS)

Karoliina Ekström, Fortum Power and Heat, Finland - Overview of the NKS-R programme and summary of ongoing activities
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Justin Gwynn, NRPA, Norway - An overview of the NKS-B Programme 2008-2011
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Mark Dowdall, NRPA, Norway - International Gamma Spectrometric Assessment Exercises Using Simulated Spectra
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Robert Finck, SSM, Sweden - Exercise, RE-FOX, taking place in Sweden 2012 with Nordic countries invited -Suggestion for a NKS-project
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Sigurður E. Pálsson, IRSA, Iceland - Radioecology and Radiation Emergency Preparedness in Iceland for 25 years -A Tribute to NKS
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Session 6: Medical I

Ritva Bly, STUK, Finland - European population dose from radiodiagnostic procedures -early results of Dose Datamed 2
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Hilde M. Olerud, NRPA, Norway - Trends in examination frequency and population doses in Norway, 2002 - 2008
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Guðlaugur Einarsson, IRSA, Iceland - Frequency of medical x-ray examinations and Patient and Population Doses in Iceland in 2008
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Anja Almén, SSM, Sweden - Optimisation in diagnostic radiology -how EMAN can contribute to improvements
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Annika Bjerkborn, SIS, Denmark - Administrative Inspection of Danish X-ray Clinics
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Michael Sandborg, Linköping University, Sweden - Patient organ radiation doses during treatment for aneurismal subarachnoid haemorrhage
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Heiðbjört Í. Friðriksdóttir, Akureyri Hospital, Iceland - Radiation dose in cardiac CT measured with TLDs and compared with DLP
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Hanne Waltenburg, SIS, Denmark - Staff Doses in Interventional Cardiology
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Anders Frank, SSM, Sweden - Changes in collective dose a result of underlying variations in frequency and dose
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Anna Kelaranta, STUK, Finland - Thermoluminescence dosimetry used as a postal quality audit in intraoral radiology
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Marie Solberg, NRPA, Norway - What about veterinarians' use of x-ray equipment? -Results from a nation-wide survey on the use of diagnostic x-ray among veterinarians in Norway
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Britta Højgård, SIS, Denmark - Creating New Guidelines for CT Reference Dosimetry
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Catarina Danestig Sjögren, SSM, Sweden - Advice to refrain from non-medical ultrasound examinations of the foetus
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Daniel Y. Shimmyo, IRSA, Iceland - DAP in Panoramic and Chepalometric Examinations in Iceland
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Session 7: Medical II

Hannu Järvinen, STUK, Finland - Guidance on internal audits and self-assessments: support to external clinical audits
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Peter K. Frederiksen, SIS, Denmark - Dose Measurements on Dental Tomographs and CBCTs
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Eva G. Friberg, NRPA, Norway - Nordic survey on national management and requirements for use of dental Cone Beam CT
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Søren Holm, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Danmark - Radiation doses 2001-2010 to staff working in a large PET and PET/CT department
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Valdís Guðmundsdóttir, Landspítali University Hospital, Iceland - Implementation of Radiation Measurement Criteria and Limits for Guidelines for Small Radioactive Spills at Landspitali University Hospital
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Carl Bladh-Johansson, SSM, Sweden - Interactive Web Services for Optimizing Nuclear Medicine
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Session 8: Emergency Preparedness I

Jonas Boson, FOI, Sweden - Action levels and guidelines for Swedish Armed Forces operations in radioactively contaminated environments
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Karin Fritioff, SSM, Sweden - Officer on Duty at the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority
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Markku Koskelainen, STUK, Finland - Use of deliberative stakeholder involvement in preparation of radiological emergency operating procedures at a steel mill
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Magnus Gårdestig, Linköping University, Sweden - RadiaCopter -UAS Gamma Spectrometry for Detection and Identification of Radioactive Sources
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Peder Kock, Lund University, Sweden - A real-time statistical alarm method for mobile gamma spectrometry: combining binomial counting with a goodness-of-fit
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Jens Havskov Sørensen, DMI, Danmark - NKS NordRisk II: Atlas of long-range atmospheric dispersion model calculations
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Magnus Gårdestig, Linköping University, Sweden - RadiaDroid -Simulated Radiation Detection in Smartphones
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Karl Eliassen, NRPA, Norway - Challenges in the case of an incident during transport of spent nuclear fuel along the Norwegian coast
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Raimo Mustonen, STUK, Finland - The European platform on preparedness for nuclear and radiological emergency response and recovery (NERIS Platform)
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Tuomas Peltonen, STUK, Finland - Georeferenced data sharing during radiological accidents
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Angelica Hedman, FOI, Sweden - Alpha- and beta contamination of surfaces. Which levels of contamination are possible to detect with manual search?
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Elis Holm, NRPA, Norway - Source preparation of Actinides and Polonium using coins
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Jonas Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden - Using the LaBr3:Ce scintillation detector for mobile γ-spectrometry
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Session 9: Emergency Preparedness II

Michael Ammann, STUK, Finland - Outlines of a content management system for emergency preparedness and response
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Inger M. Eikelmann, NRPA, Norway - Local-national forum for emergency and recovery strategies
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Michael Granström, Armed Forces, Sweden - Swedish Armed Forces deployable R/N-laboratory
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Øyvind G. Selnæs, NRPA, Norway - Dimensioning of Norwegian nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness and crisis management
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Tuukka Turtiainen, STUK, Finland - SecurEau -Security and decontamination of drinking water distribution systems following a deliberate contamination
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Session 10: Dosimetry and Industrial Radiation Protection

Laima Trinkler, University of Latvia - UV radiation induced processes in AlN and its potential application for solid state dosimetry
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Tore Ramsøy, IFE, Norway - Dose assessment after an historic intake of uranium
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Terese Geber, Lund University, Sweden - OSL on tooth enamel -a Potential Emergency Radiation Dose Assessment Tool
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Maarit Muikku, STUK, Finland - Uranium in urine and hair of occupationally unexposed Finnish people
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Carl-Göran Stålnacke, SSM, Sweden - Licensing of complex facilities other than nuclear power plants
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Camilla Bysell, SSM, Sweden - Radiation Safety Assessment of industry licensees
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Peter Frisk, SSM, Sweden - Radiation accident at a Swedish mining company
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Ünal Ören, Lund University, Sweden - Gafchromic film as a fast visual indicator of radiation exposure of first responders at a radiological or nuclear accident
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Jussi Huikari, STUK, Finland - Whole-body counters for measurement of internal contamination in Finland
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Ylva Ranebo, Lund University, Sweden - Uptake and retention of per os administered cobalt in human subjects
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Session 11: Concepts and Policy

Gilbert Eggermont, Free University Brussels (VUB), Belgium - New perspectives for radiation protection concepts in the frame of sustainability
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Per Hedeman-Jensen, Danish Decommissioning, Denmark - Is guidance in ICRP publications consistent on the application of reference levels?
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Christer Samuelsson, Lund University, Sweden - Teaching laymen an in depth understanding of ionising radiation
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Jozef Sabol, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic - Current problems of quantities in radiation protection and their possible solutions
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Virva Nilsson, Forsmark Kraftgupp AB, Sweden - How the use of the concept "Dose Constraint" may help to lower annual individual doses
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Helene Jönsson, SSM, Sweden - Radiation Safety Assessment of licensees using with Open Sources
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Gilbert Eggermont, Belgian Society for Radiation Protection - Ethical guidance, stakeholder involvement and radiation protection culture in the Belgian Society for Radiation Protection
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Maarit Risto, STUK, Finland - CEEPRA - Collaboration Network on EuroArctic Environmental Radiation Protection and Research
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Session 12: Natural Radioactivity and Radioecology

Ann-Louis Söderman, SSM, Sweden - NORM and other radioactive sources found in scrap metal yards in Sweden
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Rajdeep Sidhu, IFE, Norway - Developing an Survey of the impact of enhanced natural radioactivity on human and natural environment
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Siiri-Maria Aallos-Ståhl, STUK, Finland - Radon in Finnish mines 1972-2010
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Hannu Arvela, STUK, Finland - Radon prevention in new construction in Finland
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Ingvild E. Finne, NRPA, Norway - Effectiveness of anti-radon measures in Norwegian homes, seven years after mitigation
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Olli Holmgren, STUK Finland - Radon control in European countries -a RADPAR questionnaire study
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Zsuzsanna Szabó, Eötvös Univeristy, Hungary - Comparison of two 222Rn exhalation rate measurement methods by study of Hungarian adobe building materials
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Merle Lust, University of Tartu, Estonia - Assessment of the clearance options for NORM-waste
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Heikki Reisbacka, STUK, Finland - Radon measurements in Finnish workplaces during measurement seasons 2005-2010
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Eila Kostiainen, STUK, Finland - Radiocesium in moose in Finland
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Iisa Outola, STUK, Finland - Assessment of doses to biota in the Baltic Sea
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Mattias Karlsson, Linköping University, Sweden - External radiation doses to important organs in biota: Monte Carlo dose model calculations
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Maarit Muikku, STUK, Finland - STAR-Strategic Network for Intergrating Radioecology
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Klas Rosén, SLU, Sweden - Migration of radionuclides in undisturbed soil profiles
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Johannes Nilssen, NRPA, Norway - Radiocaesium in fungi in Pasvik, Norway
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Ann-Louis Söderman, SSM, Sweden - The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority's regulations on exemption and clearance of NORM waste
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Session 13: Nuclear industry and technology

Steinar Backe, IFE, Norway - UK-Norway Initiative: Research into Managed Access of Inspectors During Warhead Dismantlement Verification
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Knut K.R. Eitrheim, IFE, Norway - Iodine and cesium release fractions in a Loss-of-Coolant Accident
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Charlotte Lager, SSM, Sweden - A review of a 14C model for dose assessment of releases from normal operation of nuclear facilities
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Thommy I. Larsen, Danish Decommissioning, Denmark - Clearance measurements of embedded pipes
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Ole Reistad, IFE, Norway - A Nordic approach to impact assessment of accidents with marine reactors
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Virva Nilsson, Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB, Sweden - Preparing a WANO Peer Review within Radiological Protection at Forsmark NPP
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Session 14: Nuclear industry and policy

Veli Riihiluoma, STUK, Finland - Regulatory Approach to Radiation Protection in New NPPs
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Jens Søgaard-Hansen, Danish Decommissioning, Denmark - Establishing one set of scaling factors from a series of measured activity concentrations
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Ann-Christin Haegg, SSM, Sweden - Reducing the discharges from Studsvik to the Baltic Sea
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Chris Englefield, Environment Agency, UK - Qualified Experts for Radioactive Waste Management -the UK approach
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