CDSAGENDA V.5 Workshop on Understanding and Evaluating Radioanalytical Measurement Uncertainty (5-16 November) plus Fourth Coordination Meeting of the IAEA ALMERA Network (5-7 November)

Workshop on Understanding and Evaluating Radioanalytical Measurement Uncertainty (5-16 November) plus Fourth Coordination Meeting of the IAEA ALMERA Network (5-7 November)

Start Time:

5 November 2007 at 09:00

Ends On:

16 November 2007

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

MB (Lecture Room C)

Organizer(s):

Directors: P. Martin, U. Sansone; ICTP Local Organizer: C. Tuniz

Description:

PLEASE NOTE on MONDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2007

REGISTRATION / ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES
will take place in the Reception area of the
Main Building - ground floor from 10.30 am - 12.00 am

(subsequently: with the Workshop Secretary,
Ms. Doreen Sauleek, office 231, second floor, Main Building)

Material:

MONDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2007

Description: OPENING OF THE FOURTH COORDINATION MEETING OF THE IAEA ALMERA NETWORK (5 - 7 NOVEMBER 2007)

Room: Main Building Lecture Room C

5 November 2007

09:00
09:30

OPENING SESSION

30'

C.TUNIZ, P. MARTIN and U. SANSONE

09:30
10:00

Role and activities of ICTP

30'

C. TUNIZ
ICTP, Trieste, Italy

10:00
10:30

An introduction to the IAEA Terrestrial Environment Programme

30'

lecture_notes

P. MARTIN
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

10:30
12:00

COFFEE BREAK

01h30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

REGISTRATION / ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES
(reception area of the Main Building - ground floor)

12:00
14:00

LUNCH BREAK

02h00'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:00
14:30

Overview, structure and current status of ALMERA

30'

lecture_notes

U. SANSONE
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

14:30
15:15

ALMERA 2006 Proficiency Test on the determination of gamma emitting radionuclides in soil, grass and water

45'

lecture_notes

A. SHAKHASHIRO
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

15:15
15:45

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

15:45
16:30

ALMERA 2006 Proficiency Test on the determination of 210Po in water

45'

lecture_notes

A. SHAKHASHIRO
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

18:00
20:00

WELCOME RECEPTION

02h00'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

TUESDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 2007

Description: FOURTH COORDINATION MEETING OF THE IAEA ALMERA NETWORK (5 - 7 NOVEMBER 2007)

Room: Main Building Lecture Room C

6 November 2007

09:00
09:45

Current IAEA activities for development of recommended procedures of radionuclides in terrestrial environmental samples

45'

lecture_notes

C.K. KIM
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

09:45
10:30

Rapid methods for ALMERA Network in an Emergency situation analysis methods for radionuclides

45'

lecture_notes

S. TARJAN
Hungarian Agricultural Authority, Budapest, Hungary

10:30
11:00

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:00
11:20

Analysis of Sr-89, Sr-90, Pu-238 and Pu-239 results in the NPL Environmental Radioactivity Proficiency Test

20'

lecture_notes

A. HARMS
National Physical Laboratory, Middleses, U.K.

11:20
11:40

The Romanian underground laboratory

20'

lecture_notes

R.M. MARGINEANU
National Institute of RD for Physics & Nuclear Engineering, Magurele, Romania

11:40
12:00

Portugal activities for the routine environmental measurements

20'

lecture_notes

M.J. MADRUGA
ITN/Dept. of Radiological Protection & Nuclear Safety, Sacavem, Portugal

12:00
14:00

LUNCH BREAK

02h00'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:00
15:00

The questionnaire result on analytical capability ALMERA member laboratories

01h00'

lecture_notes

C.K. KIM
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

15:00
15:30

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

15:30
15:40

NPP Cernavoda activities

10'

lecture_notes

C. BUCUR and S. POPOACA
Environmental Laboratory, NPP Cernavoda, Romania

15:40
18:40

ALMERA members' 10 mins. presentations

03h00'

SCN Activities concerning measurement of environment radioactivity 10' lecture_notes	Cristian DULAMA and Al TOMA (Institute for Nuclear Research, Pitesti, Romania)
Quick introduction of KINS and Rapid Analysis of Pu 10' lecture_notes	KIM, Yong Jae and YUN, Ju Yong (KINS, Daejeon, Korea)
Institute for Environmental Research Radiochemistry Facilities 10' lecture_notes	Atun ZAWADZKI (ANSTO, Sydney, Australia)
Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission 10' lecture_notes	Maria TADDEI and Fabiana DIAS (CNEN, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Government of India 10' lecture_notes	Shunmugavelu CHINNAESAKKI (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India)
Activities of the Health & Safety Department at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), Kejeller (Norway)of relevans to ALMERA 10' lecture_notes	Rajdeep SIDHU (IET, Kjeller, Norway)
Radiological measurements in the labs. of Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia 10' lecture_notes	Jasmina KOZAR LOGAR (JSI, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
National Technical University of Athens 10' lecture_notes	Konstantinos KARFOPOULOS (University of Athens, Greece)
Radioanalytical Laboratory at the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority 10' lecture_notes	Lilian NORRLID-DEL RISCO (SSI, Stockholm, Sweden)
Monte-Carlo-Simulation of Radiation Detectors 10' lecture_notes	Elena ROBU (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Environmental Radiological surveillance programme around Trombay, Mumbai, India 10' lecture_notes	Rakesh SINGHAL (Bhabba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India)
Short introduction to the Environmental Radiological surveillance laboratory 10' lecture_notes	Jorge CARRAZANA GONZALEZ (CPHR, Havana, Cuba)
IRD - SEANA - Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear 10' lecture_notes	Ana Cristina MELO FERREIRA (CNEN, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Safety and Quality 10' lecture_notes	Valentin AVRAMOV (NPP, Kozloduy, Bulgaria)
The measurements of Environmental Radioactivity in the ENEA Radiation Protection Institute 10' lecture_notes	Salvatore ZICARI (ENEA, Matera, Italy)
Furture plan for RM and PTs 10' lecture_notes	A. SHAKHASHIRO, U. SANSONE and A. TRINKL (IAEA, Vienna, Austria)
Radiation Network 10' lecture_notes	Muntaha ALZAQQAH (Ministry of Health, Safat, Kuwait)
Use of Fallout Radionuclides in Assessing Soil Quality and Soil Erosion 10' lecture_notes	LI Jungie and LI Yong (CAAS, Beijing, China)

WEDNESDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2007

Description: FOURTH COORDINATION MEETING OF THE IAEA ALMERA NETWORK (5 - 7 NOVEMBER 2007)

Room: Main Building Lecture Room C

7 November 2007

09:00
10:00

ALMERA 2005 soil sampling intercomparison exercise (IAEA/SIE/01) + DVD Presentation

01h00'

P. de ZORZI
APAT, Rome, Italy

10:00
10:30

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

10:30
11:00

IAEA Marine laboratory activities

30'

M.K. PHAM
IAEA, Monaco

11:00
11:30

Future plan of ALMERA (2008-2009)

30'

lecture_notes

U. SANSONE
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

11:30
12:30

Summary and closure of the Meeting

01h00'

C. TUNIZ, P. MARTIN and U. SANSONE

12:30
14:00

LUNCH BREAK

01h30'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:00
17:00

Visit to the Microprocessors Laboratory - ICTP Campus

03h00'

Room: ICTP-INFN Laboratory (Mlab)

Meeting Point: Reception area of the Main Building at 14.00 hrs

THURSDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 2007

Description: OPENING OF THE WORKSHOP ON UNDERSTANDING AND EVALUATING RADIOANALYTICAL MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY (5 - 16 NOVEMBER 2007)

Room: Main Building Lecture Room C

8 November 2007

08:30
09:00

OPENING SESSION

30'

C. TUNIZ, P. MARTIN and U. SANSONE

09:00
10:00

Radioactivity measurements and uncertainty evaluation

01h00'

lecture_notes

G. RATEL
BIPM, Sevres, France

Room: Main Building, Lobby

10:00
10:30

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

10:30
11:00

Applied Statistics: Basic statistical terms and concepts

30'

lecture_notes

S. BARBIZZI
APAT, Rome

11:00
12:00

Measurement uncertainty

01h00'

lecture_notes

S. BARBIZZI
APAT, Rome, Italy

12:00
13:30

LUNCH BREAK

01h30'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

13:30
15:00

Stability of the analytical system - Part I

01h30'

lecture_notes

A. SHAKHASHIRO
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

15:00
15:30

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

15:30
16:45

Stability of the analytical system - Part II

01h15'

lecture_notes

A. SHAKHASHIRO
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

FRIDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 2007

Room: Main Building Lecture Room C

9 November 2007

09:00
10:30

Sampling in the measurement process

01h30'

lecture_notes

P. de ZORZI
APAT, Rome, Italy

10:30
11:00

COFFEE BREAK - Main Building Bar area

30'

11:00
11:45

Sampling contribution to the measurement uncertainty

45'

lecture_notes

P. de ZORZI
APAT, Rome, Italy

11:45
13:00

An outline of methods for the estimation of uncertainty that include the contribution from sampling

01h15'

lecture_notes

S. BARBIZZI
APAT, Rome, Italy

13:00
14:00

LUNCH BREAK

01h00'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:00
14:30

Estimation of Uncertainty arising from Sampling using variogram parameter

30'

lecture_notes

P. de ZORZI
APAT, Rome, Italy

14:30
15:00

COFFEE BREAK - Main Building Bar area

30'

15:00
16:45

Exercise

01h45'

lecture_notes

P. de ZORZI and S. BARBIZZI
APAT, Rome, Italy

MONDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2007

Room: Main Building Lecture Room C

12 November 2007

08:30
10:30

Uncertainty in gamma spectrometry

02h00'

P. de FELICE
ENEA, Rome, Italy

10:30
11:00

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:00
12:30

Uncertainty in gamma spectrometry

01h30'

P. de FELICE
ENEA, Rome, Italy

12:30
14:00

LUNCH BREAK

01h30'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:00
15:15

Uncertainty in gamma spectrometry

01h15'

P. de FELICE
ENEA, Rome, Italy

15:15
15:45

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

15:45
16:45

Uncertainty in gamma spectrometry

01h00'

P. de FELICE
ENEA, Rome, Italy

TUESDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 2007

Room: Main Building Lecture Room C

13 November 2007

08:30
10:30

Uncertainty in gamma spectrometry

02h00'

P. de FELICE
ENEA, Rome, Italy

10:30
11:00

COFFEE BREAK - Main Building Bar area

30'

11:00
12:30

Uncertainty in gamma spectrometry

01h30'

P. de FELICE
ENEA, Rome, Italy

12:30
14:00

LUNCH BREAK - Main Building Bar area or Adriatico Guest House (no lunch available at the Main Building Cafeteria for today only)

01h30'

14:00
15:15

In-situ gamma spectrometry

01h15'

lecture_notes

G. KIS-BENEDEK
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

15:15
15:45

COFFEE BREAK - Main Building Bar area

30'

Main Building Bar for today only

15:45
16:45

In-situ gamma spectrometry

01h00'

lecture_notes

G. KIS-BENEDEK
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

WEDNESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2007

Room: Main Building Lecture Room C

14 November 2007

09:00
10:00

Environmental radioactivity monitoring in Italy. Role of ARPA Friuli Venezia Giulia in the event of regional radiological emergency

01h00'

lecture_notes

C. GIOVANI
ARPA, FVG, Udine, Italy

10:00
10:30

COFFEE BREAK - Main Building bar area

30'

10:30
12:00

Nuclear emergency preparedness and response in Italy

01h30'

lecture_notes

P. ZEPPA
APAT, Rome, Italy

12:00
13:30

LUNCH BREAK

01h30'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

13:30
16:30

VISIT TO ARPA, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine

03h00'

Meeting Point: Reception area of the Main Building at 13.30 hrs

THURSDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2007

Room: Main Building Lecture Room C

15 November 2007

08:30
10:30

Uncertainty in alpha spectrometry

02h00'

lecture_notes

P. MARTIN and C.K. KIM
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

10:30
11:00

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:00
12:30

Combined Uncertainty in the Determination of 90Sr by Liquid Scintillation Counting - LSC

01h30'

lecture_notes

C.K. KIM
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

12:30
14:00

LUNCH BREAK

01h30'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:00
15:15

Combined Uncertainty in the Determination of 90Sr by Liquid Scintillation Counting - LSC

01h15'

lecture_notes

C.K. KIM
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

15:15
15:45

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

15:45
16:45

Combined Uncertainty in the Determination of 90Sr by Liquid Scintillation Counting - LSC

01h00'

lecture_notes

C.K. KIM
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

FRIDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2007

Room: Main Building Lecture Room C

16 November 2007

08:30
10:30

Uncertainty in gas proportional counting

02h00'

lecture_notes

G. KIS-BENEDEK
IAEA, Vienna, Austria

10:30
11:00

COFFEE BREAK

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:00
12:30

CLOSING SESSION

01h30'

Claudio TUNIZ (ICTP)
Paul MARTIN (IAEA)
Chang Kyu KIM (IAEA)