News

COVID-19 – Postponement of MetroRADON workshop and seminar in May 2020

Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe and in order to stop its spread, the “Workshop on new procedures for radon monitoring” (12 May 2020) and “Training seminar for radon instrument calibration and measurements” (13 May 2020) are postponed until further notice. We are monitoring the situation and will do our best, to find new dates as soon as possible. We will update you as soon as new dates are set.

 

Newsletter February 2020

The fifth project newsletter is available! You can download it here or by visiting the section documents on our website.

 

New material uploaded!

We have filled the documents section with new material to inform you of our ongoing Activities. You will find reports, presentations, posters, etc. The Status Report February 2020 gives a comprehensive overview over our activities last year.

 

Newsletter July 2019

The fourth project newsletter is available! You can download it here or by visiting the section documents on our website.

 

New material uploaded!

We have filled the documents section with new material to inform you of our ongoing Activities. You will find reports, presentations, posters, etc. The Status Report July 2019 gives a comprehensive overview over our activities last year.

 

Newsletter January 2019

The third project newsletter is available! You can download it here or by visiting the section documents on our website.

 

New material uploaded!

We have filled the documents section with new material to inform you of our ongoing Activities. You will find reports, presentations, posters, etc. The Status Report January 2019 gives a comprehensive overview over our activities last year.

 

Radon Session at EURADOS Annual Meeting & EURADOS Winter School

Within the framework of the WG 3 (environmental dosimetry), a separate radon meeting (WG3-S3) will be held at the EURADOS Annual Meeting (11-14 February 2019). It will take place on February 12 from 16:00 – 18:00.

This years EURADOS Winter School on “Radon: Dosimetry, Metrology and Regulation” will take place on February 14 2019.

The official second announcement for the EURADOS Annual Meeting 2018 taking place in Łódź, Poland, 11-14 February 2019 can be found here. Many researchers engaged in MetroRADON will present their work there!

 

Newsletter July 2018

The second project newsletter is available! You can download it here or by visiting the section documents on our website.

 

MetroRADON progress meeting in Warsaw, Poland

18 months already over! All project partners met in Warsaw Poland, 28-29 November 2018 to discuss project results and plan for the next 9 months.

 

New material uploaded!

We have filled the documents section with new material to inform you of our ongoing Activities. You will find reports, presentations, posters, etc. The Status Report July 2018 gives a comprehensive overview over our activities last year.

 

MetroRADON progress meeting in Braunschweig, Germany

9 months already over! All project partners met in Braunschweig, Germany 21-22 February 2018 to discuss project results and plan for the next 9 months.

 

Radon Session at EURADOS Annual Meeting

Within the framework of the WG 3 (environmental dosimetry), a separate radon meeting will be held at the EURADOS Annual Meeting. It will take place on February 7 from 09:00 – 10:00.

Frank Wissmann, BfS will present the MetroRadon project.

Anette Röttger, PTB will give a talk on “Development of new radon emanation sources”.

The official second announcement for the EURADOS Annual Meeting 2018 taking place in Lisbon, 5th to 8th February 2018 can be found here.

 

Newsletter December 2017

The first project newsletter is available! You can download it here or by visiting the section documents on our website.

 

Meeting WP2 (6th – 7th November 2017; Saclay, France)

Presentation of the primary thoron measurement system

Visit of The BACCARA radon chamber

Visit of the LNHB

Presentation and discussion of the results obtained to evaluate the reference thoron atmosphere in IRSN test chamber (BACCARA)

Presentation and discussion of the results obtained to evaluate the reference thoron atmosphere in SUN test chamber

Presentation of the secondary thoron reference instruments and their use in thoron measurement by STUK and BEV-PTP

Discussion on the organisation of the calibration exercise

Discussion on the organisation around the study of the influence of thoron on active radon monitors.

Meeting WP3 and WP4 (6th November 2017; Verbania, Italy)

Updates on following activities:

A3.1.1 Gordana Pantelic , VINCA
A3.1.2. and A3.2.2. Giorgia Cinelli, JRC
A3.1.4 Dobromir S. Pressyanov , SUBG
A3.2.3 Luis Quindos and  Jose Villanueva , UC

A.4.1.1 Peter Bossew
A.4.2.1 Peter Bossew
A.4.3.2 Dobromir Pressyanov
A.4.4.2 Valeria Gruber, AGES