Program: CEEX
Module: 1
Competition: oct.2005
Project category: Complex P-CD
Contract number: 644/2005
Dates: Oct. 2005-November. 2008
Project Title: EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE RISK SITUATION DUE TO ANTROPIC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES IN AREA WITH POTENTIAL TOURISM / RISK ASSESSMENT AND ADMINISTRATION CONCERNING THE RADIOACTIVE ANTROPICAL SOURCES FROM POTENTIAL TOURISTIC AREAS – REMED

Contracting authority: POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Faculty of Power Engineering
The MENER program

Project Coordinator: National Institute for Metals and Radioactive Resources – ICPMRR
Bucharest
Project manager: Geologist Nica Dan Bujor

Project Partner 1: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN
TURISM – I.N.C.D.T. Bucharest
Project manager: Geolog C.S. II Georgeta Maiorescu

Project Partner 2: NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR
MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOECOLOGY – GeoEcoMar Bucharest
Project coordinator: Dr. Geologist Mihaela Carmen Melinte

Project Partner 3: BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Geography and Geology
Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Lucian Matei

Overall objective of the project:
Restoring the ecological balance and maintaining the territories affected by the radioactive pollution in the economic activities by means of mitigation, adaptation and restoration of the environmental factors.

Specific objectives / milestones:
Stage I (achieved) – Identify environmental problems and capitalize on existing data on the impact of anthropogenic radioactive sources on areas with tourism potential and the design of the database.
Stage II (achieved) – Outlining the anomalous areas in terms of radiotoxicity in tourist or protected areas and highlighting the level of pollution by qualitative and quantitative determinations.
Stage III (ongoing) – Radiological safety analysis in risk areas resulting in ways to eliminate and mitigate impact objects.
Stage IV (ongoing) – Managing the radiological risk situation in the case of a proposed mining objective for closure according to an integrated environmental management system designed to solve the land use conflict.
Step Five – A strategy for managing the radiological risk associated with the front end of the natural uranium cycle.

Significant results:
§ defining the concept of geographic landscape and the relationships between its concessions.
§ identifying radioactive sources and their distribution on the territory of Romania.
§ Developing the risk assessment concept in consensus with the methodology used worldwide, adapted to the specific conditions and requirements of Romania.
§ elaborating the methodology for collecting, storing and processing the information accumulated in a unitary database system.
§ Identification of environmental problems in areas with anthropogenic radioactive sources and delimitation of anthropic geosystems with major functional imbalances.

Results dissemination:
Participation in national and international events:

§ The Scientific Session of MENER 2006 – Les sources of radioactivity entropiques associates the extraction of minerals and their relation to the environment – authors Bujor Dan Nica, Sorin Ovidiu Mihai, Titus Brustur, Mihaela Melinte.