Home   Scientific Committee   Organising Committee   Venue   Programme including abstracts, full papers and presentations   Social Programme   Conference Themes   Declaration   Photo Gallery   Contact organised by:     ETRAP 2005 23 - 25 November in Brussels, Belgium 3rd International Conference on Education and Training in Radiological Protection Title   E&T in the frame of nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness: Belgium’s experience and future plans Presented by   Lodewijk Van Bladel , Christian Vandecasteele, Guy Lefebvre Institute(s)   Control and Surveillance Department, Federal Agency for Nuclear Control, Belgium Description   The  extensive  use  of  radioactive  materials  in  industry,  research  and  medicine  implies  a  risk  of  nuclear  and  radiological  incidents  and  accidents.  The  same  goes  for  their  production,  conditioning  and  transport  as  well  as  for  their  processing  after  use  and  their  possible  storage  as  waste.  As  many  other  countries,  Belgium  has  adopted  a  nuclear  and  radiological  emergency  plan  that  is  intended  to  offer  a  framework  for  effective  response  in  case  such  an  event  would  happen.  The  prerequisite  of  success  in  applying  such  a  plan  is  that  all  organisations  involved  have  precise  knowledge  of  what  is  and  what  can  be  expected  of  them  and  that  all  members  of  their  personnel  involved  have  been  given  adequate  education  and  training.  Emergency  preparedness  also  calls  for  information  of  the  public  at  large  and  of  different  target  groups  within  the  population  who  would  have  to  react  in  an  appropriate  way. This  paper  discusses  the  information,  education  and  training  efforts  undertaken  in  Belgium  during  recent  years  and  also  deals  with  perspectives  for  the  near  future. Full paper       Presentation   Vanbladel.pdf   (379 KB - 388,137 bytes) back