Radioecology Data
Data are essential to allow radioecological models to be developed, international recommendations to be made and parameter handbooks produced.
On this page, ALLIANCE provides links to key international radioecological databases; open access data archives which issue deposited data with unique Digital Object Identifiers; other sources of radioecological or potentially relevant radiation protection data.
International Databases
Wildlife Transfer Database
The Wildlife Transfer Database (WTD) is a collation of concentration ratio data for wildlife in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Anybody can add data and summary outputs are updated periodically. It has been used to update the ERICA Tool (Brown et al. 2016).
FREDERICA - Radiation Effects Database
The FREDERICA database* is a quality controlled compilation of dose-effect relationships between radiation exposures and their effects on organisms. It has been used by the ICRP (Publication 108, 2008) and to derive the screening dose rate benchmark used by the ERICA Tool.
*Please, note that the FREDERICA database is being updated and therefore is not available for the moment
Online Data Archives (issue Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
STORE DB - Sustaining Access to Tissues and Data from Radiobiological Experiments
The STORE DB is a platform for the archiving and sharing radiation protection related data and has been used by a number of EURATOM funded projects as their data repository. Whilst initially it was radiobiology focussed it now contains some radioecology data. Anybody can store data in the STORE repository and the data are issued with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC)
The EIDC host all radioecology data from UKCEH and some other collaborators; to access only this data use the search term 'radioecology'.
Other online sources of radioecological data
Miljostatus
The English version of Miljostatus website collates data on many topics of interest to radioecology these include: Radioactive pollution, Chernobyl accident, Radioactive waste, Radioactivity in the sea, Radioactivity on land and in freshwater and Radon.
RNM - French réseau national de mesures de la radioactivité dans l’environnment
RNM is the national network for environmental radioactivity measurements and centralises all the monitoring data on environmental radioactivity in France. The site describes the objectives of the RNM and gives its main publications. Every three years a report is also published in English; the last one was published on 2015-2017 data.
UK Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports
The RIFE reports give a detailed assessment of radioactivity in food and the environment and the public’s exposure to radiation during a specific year. The reports bring together the nationwide monitoring programs of the UK’s food standard agencies and environment agencies. This monitoring is independent of, and is also used as a check on, the monitoring carried out by site operators.
TERRITORIES Library Database (TLD)
The TLD database was created during the CONCERT-TERRITORIES project; it includes some previously existing data and some new data obtained during the project. For more information see the CONCERT-TERRITORIES deliverable. The database itself is available from here.
Other sources of relevant data
CONCERT - Infrastructures Radiation protection Research Documented Database (AIR2D2)
CONCERTs AIR2D2 documented database provides access to databases and other information relevant to other areas of radiation protection.
Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel - Nuclear data
A compilation of nuclear data including half-life, decay mode, emission energy and intensity, decay scheme etc.. A recommended source of information by some accreditation bodies.
RADD, the European Commission RAdioactive Discharges Database
RADD is an online EU portal for collecting, storing, exchanging and dissemination of information on radioactive discharges from sites in the EU.
Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is a specialised agency within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organisation of industrialised countries. The databank provides an international reference centre for computer codes, nuclear and thermochemical data.
Earth System Science Data (ESSD)
The European Radiological Data Exchange Platform (EURDEP): 25 years of monitoring data exchange.