Technical Meeting on Methodologies and Technologies Used for the Characterization of Radioactively Contaminated Land

The IAEA will hold a Technical Meeting on Methodologies and Technologies Used for the Characterization of Radioactively Contaminated Land at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria, from 21 to 26 August 2023.

Virtual attendance is not possible.

Contaminated sites and areas requiring environmental improvement exist across the world. Critical to ensuring their clean up and reuse is the ability to characterize the site before, during and after physical works. Characterization of contaminated land is a multi-disciplinary task requiring a range of expertise and technical backgrounds. It can include the use of in field instrumentation, sampling strategies and techniques, laboratory analysis and data assessment and visualization.

This Technical Meeting will provide experts with an opportunity to share experience and lessons learned and discuss good practices and challenges. The output of the meeting will be used to develop a new IAEA publication.

The Technical Meeting is for technical experts who are responsible for, or actively involved in, the characterisation of radioactively contaminated sites.

Nominees are strongly encouraged to contribute to the meeting by proposing a presentation. Presentations will be approximately 20 minutes with 5 minutes for Q&A.

A summary of the presentation should be submitted with the Participation Form (Form A). Further information about the summary and the topic of interest can be found in the Information Sheet.

The designation deadline is 9 June 2023.