Recent meetings
Meeting venues
2010
Frascati (Italy)
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 2010

- Assessment of uranium exposure from total uranium activity and 234U/238U activity ratios in urine
Simon WALDREN - AWE, United Kingdom
- Hair analysis as an indicator of exposure to uranium
Konstantina KEHAGIA – EEAE, Greece
- Development of a technique for the determination of 226Ra and 228Ra in biological samples by liquid scintillation.
Wanderson DE OLIVEIRA SOUSA– IRD, Brazil

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.
Alain CAZOULAT (France)
- Expression of radiotoxicology results: impact of the ISO 11929standards or the ISO 28218 draft standard.
Philippe 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
Céline 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.
Sandro BAZZARI bazzarri@casaccia.enea.it
- State of the art of environmental nuclear toxicology research programmes.
Eric ANSOBORLO eric.ansoborlo@cea.fr
- New radiochemical procedure for actinides analysis based on calix[6]arene molecules: Application to bioassays.
Céline BOUVIER-CAPELY celine.bouvier@irsn.fr

In 2006

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

In 2005

- ICP-SFMS or alpha spectrometry for the detection of long lived actinides at traces level? A feedback.
Nicolas 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
Laurence 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.
Pascal FROIDEVAUX IRP Lausanne Switzerland


Workshops
In 2010

Workshop 1
Chairman: Philippe BERARD- Procorad scientific council
- News in Radiotoxicology
- Reference of PROCORAD in literature review
- Criteria for selecting outliers with 5 statistical tests
Workshop 2
Chairman: Christian HURTGEN, Philippe BERARD – Procorad Scientific council
- What is the real half-life of nuclear data?
- How to assess the uncertainties of the measurements?
- Impact of ISO 17043 "conformity assessment – general requirements for proficiency testing” February 2010.

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 and 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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