title: Finnish workshop on the restoration of contaminated residential areas after a nuclear accident: strategy generation and impact assessment.
abstract: Scenario-focused workshops on the restoration of contaminated residential areas are planned in a number of European countries within the EVATECH project of the EU's Fifth Framework Programme. The intention is to identify factors driving decision-making, explore the kinds of strategies that might be appropriate, develop methods for stakeholder involvement, and reveal information needs. The scenario of the Finnish workshop is presented. A policy generation scheme is proposed that yields a manageable but feature-rich set of strategies that is not constraint by lack of feasibility, justification, or public acceptability. The scheme rests on the premise that the affected area is divided into zones according to the level of contamination and that clean-up actions are applied in any combination and in combination with relocation.
authors.affiliation: Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK), PO Box 14, 00881 Helsinki, Finland. michael.ammann@stuk.fi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ammann
mesh_terms: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D003252:Construction Materials; D003666:Decontamination / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D004493:Education; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005387:Finland; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies; D006109:Poaceae; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection; D011847:Radioactive Fallout; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D014197:Trees
chemical_list: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D011847:Radioactive Fallout