Recent meetings
Meeting venues
2009
Centre de congrès du WTC - Grenoble - France
2008
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Teddington - United Kingdom
2007
Villeneuve Lez Avignon - Chartreuse - France
2006
Constanza-Romania
2005
Brugge (Belgium)- SCK/CEN of Mol
2004
Lausanne (Switzerland) - Radiophysical Applied Institute
2003
Dijon- Catholic University of Burgundy- France
2002
VKTA - Dresden - Germany
2001
MAISON DE LA CHIMIE - Paris -france
2000
AIEA / VIC - Vienna -Austria
1999
MARINE NATIONALE - Toulon - France
1998
CIEMAT / MADRID - Spain
1997
EDF / Le BLAYAIS - Bordeaux - France
1996
CEE / JRC - Ispra - Italy
The last presentations
In 2009

Absorption Study of Am and Cm to TEVA, TRU and DGA Resins.
A. BOMBARD (France)
Mobile facilities of the Military Radiological Protection Department.
A. CAZOULAT (France)
Expression of radiotoxicology results: impact of the ISO 11929standards or the ISO 28218 draft standard.
P. BERARD (France)
Presentation of the National Institute for Radiological Protection China CDC
T. FEI (China)
A new formulation containing Calixarene molecules as an emergency treatment of uranium skin contamination
C. BOUVIER-CAPELY (France)

In 2008

Accreditation to ISO guide 43 part 1- Organization of proficiency test exercise.
Simon JEROME, NPL (United Kingdom)
Uncertainty by using creatinine normalization of spot urine samples to 24 hour collection for assessment of exposure to uranium.
Rachel MARCO, NRC, NEGEV (Israel)
Results of the 2007 IRSN intercomparison of lung monitoring systems for actinides measurements.
Mohamed ZARYAH, IRSN (France)

In 2007

Nuclear emergency: scintillation counting as a suitable method for internal contamination screening for alpha and beta emitters.
S. BAZZARI
bazzarri@casaccia.enea.it
State of the art of environmental nuclear toxicology research programmes.
E. ANSOBORLO
eric.ansoborlo@cea.fr
New radiochemical procedure for actinides analysis based on calix[6]arene molecules: Application to bioassays.C. BOUVIER-CAPELY
celine.bouvier@irsn.fr

In 2006

The case for measuring tritium in saliva when monitoring exposed persons.
J.P. LEGOFF
jean-pierre.legoff@cea.fr
CHERNOBYL, 20 years later
C. HURTGEN
churtgen@sckcen.be
Use of DTPA: dosage, efficiency and treatment
L. GRAPPIN
louise.grappin@cea.fr

In 2005

ICP-SFMS or alpha spectrometry for the detection of long lived actinides at traces level? A feedback.
N.BAGLAN
nicolas.baglan@cea.fr
Radiation protection in the UK armed forces
T.GINGELL
tgingell@dstl.gov.uk
Contribution of hair and blood dosimetry following a critically accident
L.LEBARON-JACOBS
laurence.lebaron-jacobs@cea.fr

In 2004

Monitoring radioactivity in the terrestrial food chain to man in the UK
anthony dell
a.n.dell@vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk
Description of an incident of internal contamination outcome by trans-cutaneous way of a highly hydrophilic chemical form of Plutonium
Laurent.Exmelin
Correlation between uranium intake in drinking water and bio-assays of urine, hair and toenails.
zeev karpas
karpas4@netvision.net.il

In 2003

Environmental surveillance on the battlefield
patrick gerasimo
spra.def@wanadoo.fr
Control of the risk of exposure to alpha emitting radionuclides and monitoring of works in french Nuclear power plants.
bernard le-guen
bernard.le-guen@edfgdf.fr
A rapid separation of actinides and strontium in Bio-assays samples using EICHROM's resin cartridges.
anil thakkar
thakkar@eichrom.com

In 2002

Coincidence summing correction in quantitative gamma ray spectrometry A.UGRON NCPH-NRIRR Budapest Hungary
The IAEA occupational radiation protection programme
K.MRABIT Head of radioprotection services IAEA Vienna Austria
Microwave-assisted sample preparation in radioanalytical chemistry: leaching, digestion of organic matter, evaporation of elution solutions.
P.FROIDEVAUX IRP Lausanne Switzerland


Workshops
In 2009

Chairman: Philippe BERARD, CEA/DSV, PROSITON unit
Workshop 1
- Current topics in radiotoxicology
- Handling liquid scintillation waste
- Evolution of the relative bias range
Workshop 2
- New techniques in radiotoxicology
- Comparison of the actinide electrodeposition times in biological environments
- Calibration conditions for gamma spectrometry examinations on faecal ash
- Scattering factors linked to the recommended results for dosimetry estimates
- PROCORAD publications

In 2008

Chairman: Philippe BERARD, CEA Saclay / LABM
Workshop 1:
- News in radiotoxicology
- Presentation of the conclusions of the "TMT handbook" group by George ETHERINGTON (HPA)
Workshop 2:
- Rapid radiochemical methods in radiotoxicology
- Use of the Zeta score in the Procorad statistical tests

In 2007

Workshop 1 Chairman: P. BERARD:
- 210Po feedback on monitoring and risk
- Selection of a nuclides reference table for all emitters
- Impact of the standard ISO 13528 (12/2005) on statistical methods for use in proficiency testing by interlaboratory comparisons
Workshop 2 Chairman: P. BERARD
- Follow-up of a contamination incident following the use of a 226 Ra source: in vivo and in vitro measurements: J.P. LE GOFF
- Certified reference Material (CRM) producers: P. BERARD

In 2006

Environmental and Radiobioassays laboratories presentations
C. BUCUR and M. BARAITARU CERNAVODA Romania
cbucur@cne.ro and mbaraitaru@cne.ro
Problems in primary radioactive standards
C.HURTGEN
churtgen@sckcen.be
Developments in the technical questionnaires.
Computerization of a Radiotoxicological laboratory
P.BOISSON and J. SISCARD
patrice.boisson@irsn.fr
jacques.siscard@irsn.fr

In 2005

Laboratory accreditation:
managed by JF.MORO from COFRAC organism with the participation of C.BOURCIER and C.HURTGEN from Scientific council of PROCORAD
Validation of analytical methods:
managed by Ph.BERARD from Scientific council who have presented a questionnaire and its results.
R.FOTTORINO have described the french criteria of the ABNF Guidebook
and F.VERREZEN from SCK/CEN, a specific application with the KPA method of uranium by mass measurement in urine samples

In 2004

226Ra measurement in urine samples: news and feedback of all laboratories
Exhaled air samples: feedback of all laboratories
Non exchangeable OBT measurements at trace level
nicolas baglan
nicolas.baglan@cea.fr
Liquid scintillation cocktails:feedback of all laboratories
Beta spectrometry applied for radioactivity measurement

In 2003

Whats's new from?....Oxford 2002, BfS meeting, ICRM...
Study comparing radiochemistry methods used during the past 3 years.
Philippe Berard
berard@aquilon.cea.fr
Products used for preserving urine samples
mariette ruffin
ruffin@dircad.cea.fr
The effect of 40K interference in direct measurement by Liquid scintillation
Philippe Berard
berard@aquilon.cea.fr
Advice concerning techniques for measuring 241Pu
catherine bourcier
bourcier@aquilon.cea.fr
210Po measurement in urine
Philippe Berard
berard@aquilon.cea.fr
Future events: OMINEX meeting, ICRM, LLRMT

Summary of 2004 intercomparisons
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Summary of 2005 intercomparisons
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Summary of 2006 intercomparisons
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Sumary of 2007 intercomparisons
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