Towards the Sixth Framework Programme

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Emergency Management in Europe Contribution of
Euratom Research G N Kelly EC, DG Research
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1970s, pre TMI accident

• development of methods and software for accident
  consequence assessment
• input to development of
• siting criteria
• emergency arrangments

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Post TMI accident, early 1980s

• TMI a modest stimulus for off-site emergency
  management
• Adaptation of accident consequence codes to real
  time decision support
• plethora of systems often promising more than
  they could deliver

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Chernobyl a watershed

• limitations of emergency arrangements at all
  levels starkly exposed
• lack of coherence across national boundaries was
  a major problem causing loss of trust
• major improvements since but complacency would be
  misplaced

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Research focus post Chernobyl

• Development of a common
• and comprehensive
• Decision Support System
• that could find broad usage
• within Europe

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Benefits

• practical framework for identifying priorities
  for RTD
• effective and timely exploitation of research
  outcomes
• better resource use
• facilitates closer European collaboration
• more coherent response

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Development/exploitation of common DSS - RODOS

• 40 institutes from more than 20 countries (EU,
  CEE, FSU) involved in development
• first installed for pre-operational use in
  national emergency centres 1997
• now in operational or pre-operational use in a
  large number of European countries

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RODOS ARGOS in Europe
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Stimulus for policy initiatives

• Regional Co-operation Agreement
• in Central Europe
• (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary
• Germany, Slovakia and Slovenia)
• operationally, through use of RODOS as a common
  platform for decision support and data exchange
• in a research context, through participation in
  FP6 project EURANOS

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Building on Success

• continue to use common DSS for sustainable
  integration of emergency management in Europe
• promote a change in ownership from research to
  operational community
• optimise for operational use
• establish road map for maintenance and further
  development of DSS including its re-engineering
• promote merits of regional approaches and
  encourage political initiatives to this end
• integrate with emergency management more generally

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Conclusions

• framework available to achieve sustainable
  integration of all aspects of emergency
  management in Europe in a coherent manner
• emergency management scene in Europe has been
  changed by Euratom research
• now behoves the user and political communities to
  profit fully from these developments