Executive summaries of the Lessons Learned in ST1 and ST2 now available !

Exploring health effects of the Fukushima accident (video)

Fukushima accident – 5 years already ! 11 March 2016 marks the 5th anniversary of the triple catastrophe which marked the life of many residents of the Tohoku area of Eastern Japan:  a magnitude 9 earthquake off the east coast of Japan, which generated a tsunami that severely damaged areas along the coast and resulted…

Elisabeth Cardis, head of the Radiation Program in CREAL, an allied ISGlobal centre, received on May 17 the diploma and medal “Chernobyl – 30 years” awarded by the A. Tsyb Medical Radiological Research Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, for her personal contribution to the investigation and mitigation of the health consequences…

jQuery UI Dialog – Animation Background The EU-OPERRA SHAMISEN project started in December 2015, with the goal of producing a set of recommendations that would contribute to health surveillance and related communication with affected populations after nuclear accidents. Experience suggested that this was an area that had not been sufficiently addressed in current accident response…

The kick off meeting of the SHAMISEN project, led by Elisabeth Cardis, Research Professor in Radiation Epidemiology at CREAL, an ISGlobal allied center, will take place in Barcelona on  17 and 18 December in the Marie Curie/Ramón i Cajal room, of the PRBB. As part of the EC funded OPERRA project (Open Project for the…

Fukushima, six years later: consequences and lessons. (in spanish) The nuclear accident did not cause radiation deaths, but the evacuation caused more than a thousand premature deaths.