ALLIANCE members

Since its creation, the ALLIANCE has progressively grown, going from the eight founding members in 2012 to 32 members, from 16 countries in December 2023.

Belgium

  • Address: SCK CEN, Boeretang 200, BE-2400 MOL, Belgium

    Website: www.sckcen.be

    SCK CEN, with 70 years of experience in nuclear research and technology, is one of the largest research institutions in Belgium. Every day, more than 850 employees dedicate themselves to developing peaceful applications of radioactivity. SCK CEN's research activities focus on three main areas: innovative nuclear systems, nuclear waste management and dismantling and the resolute fight against cancer. SCK CEN is world-renowned and shares its knowledge through countless publications and training courses, so that this pool of exceptional competence can be maintained.

Croatia

  • Address: Ksaverska cesta 2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

    Website: www.imi.hr

    Ever since its foundation in 1948 up to this day, the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health has strived to preserve its multidisciplinary approach to research. The Institute’s researchers have devoted their work to investigating and studying the physical and biological aspects of occupational health, environmental hygiene and human health, as well as to spreading knowledge regarding industrial hygiene and especially radiation protection of humans (dosimetry) and environment (biota and abiota protection) including research on NORM residues and low level medical radioactive waste. The nonionizing radiation protection and radiobiology area new and effective research fields supporting Institutes newly opened research and educational premises for environmental medicine and radiation protection in 2023. Excellence in research and continuous maintaining fo exceptional knowledge and pool of experts educating young researchers and public is modern institutes vision and research mission. Institute takes particular pride in the journal Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, which has a seventyfive-year-long tradition of uninterrupted existence.

  •  Address: Bijenička cesta 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

    Website: www.irb.hr

    The Ruđer Bošković Institute is regarded as Croatia’s leading scientific institute in the natural and biomedical sciences as well as marine and environmental research.  A multidisciplinary approach is one of the key strengths of the Institute, which provides comprehensive solutions for a broad spectrum of socially important issues. Specifically, the Laboratory for Radioecology as a part of Division for Marine and Environmental Research, provides contribution to the knowledge and to better understanding of biogeochemical behaviour of natural and artificial radionuclides in the environment. Its work is based on development and advancement of methods and procedures for alpha, beta and gamma radioactivity measurements.

Denmark

  • Address: Anker Engelunds Vej 1, Bygning 101A, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denemarken

    Website: https://www.dtu.dk/english/

    DTU Sustain-Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering- is one of the largest university departments specializing in environmental and resource engineering in Europe. The department conducts research, development & scientific advice, and provides educational programs and service to society. We are working to develop new environmentally friendly and sustainable technologies, methods and solutions, and to disseminate this knowledge to society and future generations of engineers. The Department has approximately 300 staff from more than 30 nationalities. DTU Sustain has been highly productive and successful over the last decades in the field of radioecology and related science. The Radioecology and Tracer Study (RTS) group at DTU Sustain is globally recognized for its work in environmental radioactivity, radiochemical analysis, and radiotracer studies.

Finland

  • Address: Säteilyturvakeskus, Laippatie 4, 00880 Helsinki (PL 14, 00881 Helsinki), Finland

    Website: www.stuk.fi

    The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) is a regulatory authority, research centre and expert organisation whose mission is to protect people, society, the environment and future generations from the harmful effects of radiation. STUK is well-known and respected as an expert organisation and research centre, as an independent regulator dedicated to safety, and as an influential national and international actor.

France

  • Address: Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire et de radioprotection (ASNR), 31, avenue de la Division Leclerc, 92260 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

    Website: en.asnr.fr

    The French Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ASNR) oversees civil nuclear activities in France on behalf of the French State. It also carries out research, expert assessments, training, and public information in the fields of nuclear safety and radiation protection.

    ASNR defines multi-disciplinary research programs, either in-house or in partnership with other French or foreign research organizations. The research conducted by ASNR has two main aims: to maintain and develop the knowledge and skills required for expert assessments in the various fields of nuclear safety and radiation protection, and to advance fundamental knowledge, in particular to understand the effects of ionizing radiation on health and the environment.

  • Address: CEA/Siege (Essone), 91191 Gif-sur-yvette cedex, France

    Website: www.cea.fr

    The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas: defence and security, low carbon energies (nuclear and renewable energies), technological research for industry, fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.​

  • Address: 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75016 Paris, France

    Website: https://in2p3.cnrs.fr/en

    IN2P3 coordinates French research & development activities in the fields of nuclear, particle physics and astroparticle physics. This research aims primarily at understanding fundamental interactions and the physics of the infinitely small and the infinitely large scales. IN2P3 develops in addition associated technologies and applications, most notably in the health, energy and environment sectors.

Germany

  • Address: Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Willy-Brandt-Straße 5, D-38226 Salzgitter, Germany

    Website: www.bfs.de

    BfS works for the safety and protection of man and the environment against damages due to ionising and non-ionising radiation. In the field of ionising radiation there are, e. g., X-ray diagnostics in medicine, safety in the handling of radioactive substances in nuclear technology and the protection against enhanced natural radioactivity. The work in the field of non-ionising radiation includes the protection against ultraviolet radiation and the effects of mobile communication.

  • Address: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, PO Box 510119, 01314 Dresden, Germany

    Website: www.hzdr.de

    The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. HZDR conducts research in the fields of energy, health and matter. Scientific research equipment of national and international importance is operated at the HZDR and as such, the HZDR is coordinating member and partner of numerous cooperations and projects.

  • Address: Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology, Herwigstraße 31, 27572 Bremerhaven, Germany. 

    Website: https://www.thuenen.de/en/institutes/fisheries-ecology 

    The Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology remit is to explore and monitor the marine environment. The Federal coordinating office for fish, fishery products, crustaceans, shell fish and seaweed is part of the branch “Marine Environment” of the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology. In detail, the Federal coordinating office for fish is analysing fish, crustaceans and seaweed from the Baltic and the North Sea for their concentration of radioactive substances, improving the dosimetry of non-human biota and searching for evidences of low dose radiation induced effects.

  • Address: Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419 Hannover, Germany 

    Website: https://www.irs.uni-hannover.de/en/

    The Institute of Radioecology and Radiation Protection (IRS) performs ultra-trace analysis of radionuclides, investigates their migration in the environment and estimates dose to humans due to exposure to anthropogenic and natural radionuclides. The key research foci are related to nuclear waste disposal, consequences of major nuclear accidents and on a forensic understanding of the nature of a contamination. The IRS trains radiation protection officers on a commercial basis and contributes to the establishment of standards (e.g. DIN ISO 11929).

Greece

  • Address: Patriarchou Grigoriou & Neapoleos 27, Postal Code: 15310, Agia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece

    Website: www.demokritos.gr

    The National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" (NCSRD) is the largest multidisciplinary research center in Greece, with critical mass in expertise and infrastructure in the fields of Nanotechnology, Energy & Environment, Biosciences, Particle and Nuclear Science, Informatics and Telecommunications.

    Research activities are currently coordinated by five (5) Research Institutes:

    Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications

    Institute of Biosciences & Applications

    Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences & Technology, Energy & Safety (the Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory is one of the Labs of the Institute)

    Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

    Institute of Nuclear & Particle Physics

    NCSR"D" is an autonomous Legal Entity of Public Law supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), while preserving its administrative and financial independence.

Ireland

  • Address: PO Box 3000, Johnstown Castle Estate, Wexford, Ireland

    Website: www.epa.ie/radiation

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent public body established under the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1992. The other main instruments from which we derive our mandate are the Waste Management Act, 1996, the Protection of the Environment Act, 2003 and Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014.

    The EPA carries out rigorous and continuous testing to ensure that environmental radiation remains within internationally agreed and legal safety limits. These tests ensure that we are quickly aware of any change in environmental radiation in Ireland, and able to provide the public with any health warnings and protection advice necessary.

Japan

  • Adrress: 1 Kanayagawa, Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture 960-1296, Japan

    Website: https://www.ier.fukushima-u.ac.jp/en/

    The Institute of Environmental Radioactivity (IER) was established in 2013. The major objective is to undertake basic and applied research on radionuclides behaviour in the environment, including forests, rivers, lakes, and oceans, and the effects of chronic radiation exposures on biota. IER is ideally located close to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident site and affected areas, allowing ready access to diverse field sites. IER is open to the world and aims to create a Centre of Excellence in the field of environmental radioactivity by integrating practical experiences and expertise of the international scientific community.

Nederland

  • Address 1: Westerduinweg 3, 1755 LE Petten, Nederland

    Address 2: Utrechtseweg 310 B50-West, 6812 AR Arnhem, Nederland

    Website: www.nrg.eu

    NRG Ensuring Nuclear Performance, combines more than 60 years of nuclear engineering, research and 24/7 operational reactor experience in one unique goal: the safe, reliable and efficient use of nuclear technology. 200+ highly qualified engineers and consultants provide services and solutions in nuclear safety, nuclear facility and materials integrity, decommissioning and waste management and radiation protection. NRG is independent from other utility companies or regulatory agencies. We have unique facilities: hot cells, radiochemical laboratories, decontamination and waste processing plant and a mock up hall for inspections.

Norway

  • Address: Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, P. O. Box 329 Skøyen, NO-0213 Oslo

    Website: www.dsa.no

    The Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) is the competent national authority in the area of radiation protection and nuclear safety in Norway. Until 31 December 2018, DSA’s name was Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA). The Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) is organized under the Ministry of Health and Care Services. It provides assistance to all ministries on matters dealing with radiation, radiation protection and nuclear safety.

  • Address: P.O. Box 5003, N-1432 Ås, Norway, Elizabeth Stephansens vei 29, N-1433 Ås, Norway

    Websites:

    https://www.nmbu.no/

    https://www.nmbu.no/en/faculty/mina

    https://www.nmbu.no/en/research/projects/cerad

    The Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU) has studies and research that address the major global issues of the environment, sustainable development, better public and animal health, climate challenges, renewable energy sources, food production and land and resource management. With us, quality, trust and sustainability are fundamental and governing principles. Future changes in our activity must always take care of this and be the basis for our outstanding research, education, dissemination, and innovation. The Faculty of Environmental Science and Nature Management (MINA) is NMBU's professional environment within nature and the environment, sustainable use of natural resources, biological and geological processes.

    Environmental Chemistry Section/Isotope laboratory at MINA studies the harmful effects of radiation on organisms and the ecosystem as a whole, to improve the protection of people and the environment. The focus is on long-term basic research to improve the ability to accurately assess the radiological impact from both naturally occurring and man-made radionuclides and the risk from radioactivity in the environment, also combined with other stress factors. This is done by focusing on key factors that contribute to the overall uncertainty, including exploiting and developing advanced tools and methods to better manage these risks.

Poland

  • Address: Konwaliowa 7, 03-194 Warszawa, Poland

    Website: www.clor.waw.pl

    Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection (CLOR) is a research institute with a wide range of functions to protect people and the environment. Our primary activities are monitoring of radioactive contamination in foodstuff and environmental components, calibration of dosimetric instruments and monitoring of occupationally exposed workers as well as general population. We conduct research on matters dealing with radiation protection, radiobiology and radioecology. Furthermore, CLOR serves as a center for training in radiation protection, scientific and technical information and developer of high-sensitive stations for detection of radioactive contamination of air.

  • Address: Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland

    Website: www.gig.eu

    GIG-PIB is a research and development institute, working for mining industry, local authorities and environment protection business. Main institute activities are focused on waste management, water and air protection in relation to heavy industry restructuring. The research on radioprotection and radioecology is carried out by the department Silesian Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (SCER) and mainly is focused in enhanced natural radioactivity (NORM). However, since 2016 SCRS, based on its experience on environmental radioactivity, has been strongly involved in location sites characterization for first Polish NPPs. The SCRS team has extensive experience in radiation measurements, occupational risk assessment and monitoring of the environmental impact related to the enhanced environmental radioactivity.

Portugal

  • Address: Instituto Superior Técnico, Campus Tecnológico e Nuclear, Estrada Nacional 10 (km 139,7), 2695-066 Bobadela LRS, Portugal

    Websites:

    https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/

    http://www.ctn.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/uk/uk_main.htm

    Since its creation in 1911, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST,) is the largest and most reputed school of Engineering, Science and Technology and Architecture in Portugal, providing top quality higher education, strongly exposed to Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) activities. The IST/Campus Tecnológico e Nuclear (CTN) holds the infrastructures and specialized personnel dedicated to promote and implement activities of research and technology development, advanced training, professional specialization in the domains of radiological protection and nuclear safety as well as nuclear sciences and technologies. Research activities in these domains are developed in the IST research unit C2TN (Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares- Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies, http://c2tn.smartlinksdev.pt/), while teaching and training are held by IST teaching unit DECN (Departamento de Engenharia e Ciências Nucleares - Department of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering, https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/departamentos/decn/pagina-inicial).

  • Address: Campus de Santiago, Avenida da Universidade, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Website: https://www.ua.pt/page/151

    The University of Aveiro (UA) is one of the most dynamic and innovative universities in Portugal. It is a highly regarded institution of research led education. Excellence in research is one of the hallmarks of the University with research units (RU) classified as Very good or Excellent by international panels. Four of these RU carry the label of Associate Laboratory, a distinction attributed by the Portuguese Government to research institutions of sustained and exceptional merit. Research at the UA promotes innovative products and solutions, contributing to the advance of science and technology.

  • Address: Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal.

    Website: https://sigarra.up.pt/fcup/pt/web_page.inicial

    The Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) provides high-quality training in the field of exact and natural. FCUP currently hosts six academic departments and six high-performing Research and Development Units, and it is also partnered with twelve other R&D Units. Offering more than 70 teaching programmes, FCUP has a highly-qualified teaching and research staff responsible for providing a high-quality education. FCUP also provides external services including those related with environmental risk assessment.

Spain

  • Address: Department of Environment. Avenida Complutense, 40, 28040 Madrid, Spain

    Website: www.ciemat.es

    CIEMAT, the Energy, Environment and Technology Research Centre reporting to the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, is a leading public research agency in the areas of energy and the environment, which researches many cutting-edge technologies and various key lines of investigation including information and communications technologies in order to bring benefits to science, industry and society in general.

  • Address: Department of Analytical Chemistry. Faculty of Chemistry. Martí i Franquès 1. 08028 Barcelona, Spain

    Address: Department of Plant Biology. Faculty of Biology. Av. Diagonal 643. 08028 Barcelona, Spain

    The University of Barcelona (UB) is the leading public institution of higher education in Catalonia. It is also the principal centre of university research in Spain and has become a European benchmark for research activity. The UB research groups have been engaged in national and international projects, in which the synergy created by the combination of the different background and specialities resulted in a fruitful collaboration to solve radioecological problems. Present interests focus on the development of innovative analytical methodology to improve radioactive measurements and the quantification and parameterization of key processes that influence radionuclide transfer in the terrestrial environment.

  • Address: LARUEX. Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Extremadura. Avda. Universidad, s/n, 10003, Cáceres. Spain.

    Website: http://www.laruex.com

    The Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory of the University of Extremadura (LARUEX) is devoted to provide research and innovation in radioecology and environmental radiological protection services (accreditation ISO 17025). The Spanish-Portuguese Early Warning Network Decision Centre is also managed by the LARUEX.

  • Address: Hospital Real, Avenida del Hospicio, S/N C.P. 18010 C.P. 18010 Granada. Spain.

    Website: http://www.ugr.es

    The University of Granada, founded in 1531, continues a long teaching tradition, the roots of which can be traced back to the madrasahs of the last Nasrid Kingdom. Over 60,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students study at the UGR, with another 20,000 students taking additional courses, language courses, summer courses, etc. The commitment to high-quality research has placed the University of Granada in a prominent position in terms of national rankings. The financing of 346 research groups illustrates this commitment.

  • Address: Department of Energy Engineering. Bilbao School of Engineering. University of the Basque Country.

    Plaza Ingeniero Torres Quevedo, 1. 48013 Bilbao. Spain.

    Website:

    http://www.ehu.eus/en/en-home

    https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/energia-ingeniaritza-saila

    The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is a teaching and research institution officially founded in 1985. The university employs over 7.000 people in 31 faculties and schools distributed in three different campuses, with a total of more than 50,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The UPV/EHU offers the highest number of doctorate programmes of all Spanish universities, one third of which have received a mention of excellence from the Spanish Ministry of Education. The UPV/EHU has been recognised as an International Research Campus of Excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Sweden

  • Address: Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten, SE-171 16 Stockholm, Sweden

    Website: www.stralsakerhetsmyndigheten.se

    The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority is an authority under the Ministry of the Environment with national responsibility within the areas of nuclear safety, radiation protection and nuclear non-proliferation. The Authority works proactively and preventively in order to protect people and the environment from the undesirable effects of radiation, now and in the future.

  • Address: Swedish Defence Research Agency, SE-164 90 Stockholm, Sweden

    Website: www.foi.se

    FOI, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, is a government agency under the Ministry of Defence and one of Europe’s leading research institutes in defence and security. The CBRN Defence and Security Division houses many of the country’s leading experts on chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear (CBRN) issues. The division has a broad underpinning base of interdisciplinary competence in chemistry, microbiology and physics.

United Kingdom

  • Address: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, United Kingdom

    Website: www.ceh.ac.uk

    UKCEH is an independent, not-for-profit research institute. With over 600 scientists, UKCEH provides the data and insights that researchers, governments and businesses need to create a productive, resilient and healthy environment. The institutes research is organised over six science areas: Atmospheric Chemistry and Effects; Biodiversity; Hydro-Climate Risks; Pollution; Soils and Land Use; and Water Resources. UKCEH’s science informs policy-making, commercial innovation and conservation action world-wide.

  • Address 1 (radioanalytical laboratory): Cefas Laboratory, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, NR33 0HT, United Kingdom

    Address 2 (aquarium facility): Cefas Laboratory, Barrack Road, Weymouth, DT4 8UB, United Kingdom

    Website: www.cefas.co.uk

    CEFAS are the UK government’s marine and freshwater science experts. We help keep our seas, oceans and rivers healthy and productive, and our seafood safe and sustainable by providing data and advice at national and international level. Our work helps tackle serious global environmental challenges such as climate change, aquatic pollution, loss of biodiversity and food safety. We work in partnership with our colleagues across UK government and with international governments, business, industry, non-governmental organisations, research institutes, universities, civil society and schools to collate and share knowledge.