In June 2009, the 5-year multi-national project EURANOS, funded by the European
Commission in its 6th Framework Programme, reached its end, achieving most of the
objectives addressed in the work programme. Partners from 23 European countries
integrating 17 national emergency management organisations with 33 research institutes,
aimed to enhance the preparedness for Europe’s response to any radiation emergency and
long term contamination. Three handbooks to assist national and local authorities in the
management of contaminated food production systems, inhabited areas and contaminated
drinking water resources in Europe were developed in conjunction with a wide range of
European stakeholders. Further guidance was prepared to support the decision making team
in the lifting of early phase countermeasures. A governance framework for the sustainable
rehabilitation of long term contaminated territories was developed and tested in France
and in Norway. Considerable progress was made in developing a consistent set of models for
calculating the best estimate of the current radiological situation in both contaminated
agricultural and inhabited areas. These models were integrated in both the ARGOS and the
RODOS decision support systems. Decision aiding components were improved to support the
selection of management options with the help of multi criteria decision analysis
procedures. A mass consistent wind field model was implemented together with a particle
model for complex terrain. The migration of RODOS (Real-time On-line Decision Support
System) to the operating system LINUX was completed. RODOS was completely re-engineered,
taking into account the users’ recommendations from the demonstration projects and
feedback from its operational use. This new version will build the kernel for the
operational RODOS release in 2010 and new research activities related to the future
improvement of RODOS.