Preliminary programme NATO-ARW

Preliminary Programme

Updated 11.11.04

The workshop is being arranged December 8 - 10, 2004, at Hotel Izmaylovo, Izmailovsky highway, 71, Moscow

Sponsored by: NATO Advanced Research Workshop and the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority.

The primary objective of the workshop is to examine how scientific research and environmental studies, including the effects and distribution of radiation and radionuclides, can contribute to development of practical standards for protection of the environment and human health. The output is intended to be useful to operators and regulators involved in radioactive waste management projects in Northwest Russia, who are also responsible for Environmental Impact Assessment and regulatory aspects of risk estimation. Secondary objectives include the exchange of information on the application of risk assessment methods as applied to these projects and the regulatory process applied to these projects.

There will be five different panels during the workshop:

Application of international treaties and recommendations
Environmental, Health and Safety Risks
Risk and Environmental Impact Assessment
Methodologies for Estimation of Risk
Summing up and recommendations

Programme

08.12.04 :
	Opening Moderator: NIERA, S. Klimenko and NRPA, P. Strand 10.00 Welcome - NIERA 10.15 Opening remarks - the Norwegian Embassy in the Russian Federation 10.30 Introduction to NATO ARW - NATO 10.45 Opening address - NRPA 11.15 - 11.30 Coffee Panel I: - Application of international treaties and recommendations Moderator: IAEA, M. Balonov, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 11.30 Policy and systems for implementation of nuclear projects within the Northwest Russia - FAAE 12.00 Cooperation on Strategic Master Plan, clarification of risks and hazards, Strategic Environmental Assessment - EBRD and IBRAE 12.30 International treaties and recommendations on environmental protection - Norwegian Ministry of Environment 13.00 Cooperation between all responsible authorities, identification of protection objectives, clarification of risks and recommendations to the regulatory process for nuclear projects within the Russian Federation NIERA, Medbioextreme and NRPA 13.30 Discussion 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch Top of page Panel II: - Environmental, Health and Safety Risks Moderator: FAAE, EBRD, O. Pillard Speakers: County governor in Finnmark, Norway, SevRAO, RF, NUKEM, UK 15.00 International cooperation with focus on the northern environments - AMAP 15.20 Remediation of Andreeva Bay facilities - SevRAO, RF 15.40 Risk connected to management of Spent Nuclear Fuel - NUKEM, UK 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee 16.30 Cooperation on replacement of RITEGs - County governor in Finnmark, Norway 17.00 Discussion 18.00 End of programme Top of page
09.12.04 :
	Panel III: - Risk and Environmental Impact Assessment Moderator: NIERA, S. Klimenko and NRPA, P. Strand Speakers: NRPA, Medbioextreme, Onega Inst., ICES 10.00 Environmental Risk Assessments connected to risk reduction: policy and international experience - jointly NRPA, DTI, Canada 10.30 Site-specific risk assessment, Russian EIA - Onega Inst., RF 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee 12.00 Russian experience on EIA - ICES, RF 12.30 Medical risk assessment - Medbioextreme, RF 13.00 Discussion 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch Top of page Panel IV: - Methodologies for Estimation of Risk Moderator: Roshydromet, Y. Tsaturov and NLH, B. Salbu Speakers: IRSN, Roshydromet, Prometey Inst., Krylov Inst., Biophysics Inst. 15.00 Estimation of current and future impacts on prospective models - AUN, Norway 15.20 Remediation of sites contaminated by radioactive elements (methodology for the establishment of data in order to help stakeholders in decision making concerning the best solution to be used considering the next use of the site) - IRSN, France 15.40 Research experiments conducted by IRSN and tools available for impact assessment and risk evaluation - IRSN, France 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee 16.30 Presentation from Krylov Inst, RF 16.45 Presentation from Prometey Inst, RF 17.00 Discussion 18.00 End of programme Top of page
10.12.04 :
	Panel V - Summing up and recommendations Moderator: NIERA, S. Klimenko and NRPA, P. Strand 10.00 Discussion on identification of continuing and additional requirements. What do we need to know? Is the current information sufficient? 11.15 - 11.30 Coffee 11.30 Discussion and recommendations 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch 15.00 End of the workshop Top of page