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Cardiff to host international symposium on protection from radiation

City Hall, Cardiff, is to be the venue for an important week-long international symposium on protection from radiation. The event has been organised by the Society for Radiological Protection, the UK’s leading scientific society for radiation safety professionals. Taking place between the 12th and 17th of June 2005, around 250 delegates from 16 countries will address changes in the approach to radiation protection, particularly those arising from the inclusion of stakeholders in decision making about radioactive discharge management.

This topic is one of a number with relevance to Wales and the Severn estuary. There will be papers on the Cardiff nuclear medicines factory and decommissioning nuclear power station sites, including the future use of Llyn Trawsfynydd. Remembering the effect of the1986 Chernobyl accident on hill farming in North Wales, delegates will welcome news of a handbook to guide decision-makers through the available recovery options following an incident dispersing radioactive material in the environment

Delegates will also hear from the International Commission on Radiological Protection, who has for the first time published a framework based on “scientific and ethical-philosophical principles” for the protection of non-human species from ionising radiation.

The symposium’s final keynote presentation addresses the radiation protection response to the potential terrorist threat from improvised radiological devices (dirty bombs).

The Society for Radiological Protection’s Seventh International Symposium, ‘Changes and Continuity in Radiation Protection ‘ is co-sponsored by sister societies from Germany, Switzerland, France, Holland and Spain.

Notes for editors

1. Accredited journalists are welcome to free registration to attend all or part of the symposium. Please contact Tessa Harris, SRP Administrative Officer Tel. +44 (0)1364 644487, fax. +44 (0)1364 644492, email: admin@srp-uk.org if you would like to attend.

2. Further information, including a full programme, can be downloaded from the Society for Radiological Protection's web site at http://www.srp-uk.org/events/cardiff2005/prog050526.pdf

3. During the symposium the Society's media representative, Brian Gornall, may be contacted via the help desk, Tel: +44(0)2920 871137. Alternatively, call mobile +44(0)7836 667163. Please call between 9.00am and 5.00pm.

4. Founded in 1963, the Society for Radiological Protection now has nearly 2000 national and international members. It is the leading Scientific Society in the UK for all who are professionally concerned with safety aspects of the use of ionising and non-ionising radiation in education, central and local government, industry, medicine and research.

5. The Society has the following objectives:-

to promote and advance the science of radiological protection and allied fields;
to promote, advance and disseminate to the public advantage, knowledge of radiological protection and allied fields;
to encourage, support, promote and advance education and learning in radiological protection and allied fields;
to promote and encourage high scientific, educational, regulatory and professional standards in radiological protection and allied fields.

6. This press release was researched and written for the Society for Radiological Protection by Brian Gornall and distributed for the SRP by the Institute of Physics Press Office.

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