Supporting public acceptance regarding the presence of radioactivity in projects involving natural ressources via the development of new radioanalytical tools

通过开发新的放射性分析工具，支持公众接受涉及自然资源的项目中存在放射性

• 批准号: 572002-2022
• 负责人: Larivière, DominicD
• 金额: $ 3.44万
• 依托单位: Université Laval
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=748619
• 关键词: Supporting; public; acceptance; regarding; presence

Natural resources directly and indirectly accounted for a significant portion of Canada's gross domesticproduct and accounted for millions of jobs in Canada. Yet, the sustainable growth of this economic sector isconditional to social acceptability. Been ubiquitous to our world, natural radioactivity is amongst theparameters that create apprehension amongst the population even if the radioactive emmitters are alreadypresent in the environment before any anthropogenic activities occur. To tend towards the sustainabledevelopment of our natural resources for all three pillars (economic, environmental, and social), accurate,publicly available and reliable data on the presence and behavior of radioactivity are therefore necessary. Asenvironmental and health effects of an exposure to radioactivity are of concerns for the public, monitoring ofthe presence radioactivity prior, during and after the exploitation of natural resources is amongst the strongestargument to demonstrate the limited impacts to surrounding communities. Sadly, due to radioanalyticallimitations, a systematic monitoring of this parameters is not systematically performed. This is caused by thelimited number of laboratories performing such analyses due to cost and trained qualified personnel issueswhich need to be overcome. The partnership between the academia and the governmental organisations aimstowards addressing these issues.We are proposing to develop new tools to accelerate and improve the quantification of Ra and Po atenvironmental levels by adapting analytical methodologies recently developed by members of the scientificteam to the partner's needs. As the partners will be actively involved in the development and validation of theexpected deliverables for this project, they will rapidly implement these methods in their own laboratories.These concrete actions are directly targeting the need for a better understanding of the presence of radioactivityin our life and thus, providing a key element towards a sustained development of the natural resources sector.

自然资源直接和间接占加拿大国内生产总值的很大一部分，并为加拿大提供了数百万个就业机会。然而，这一经济部门的可持续增长取决于社会的接受程度。自然放射性在我们的世界中无处不在，它是引起人们担忧的参数之一，即使放射性发射体在任何人为活动发生之前就已经存在于环境中。因此，为了实现自然资源三大支柱（经济、环境和社会）的可持续发展，有关放射性的存在和行为的准确、公开且可靠的数据是必要的。由于公众关注放射性暴露对环境和健康的影响，因此在自然资源开采之前、期间和之后监测放射性的存在是证明对周围社区影响有限的最有力论据之一。遗憾的是，由于放射分析的限制，没有系统地对该参数进行系统监测。这是由于成本和需要克服的训练有素的合格人员问题导致执行此类分析的实验室数量有限。学术界和政府组织之间的合作旨在解决这些问题。我们建议开发新工具，通过采用科学团队成员最近开发的分析方法来适应合作伙伴的需求，以加速和改进环境层面 Ra 和 Po 的量化。由于合作伙伴将积极参与该项目预期交付成果的开发和验证，他们将在自己的实验室中快速实施这些方法。这些具体行动直接针对更好地了解我们生活中放射性的存在和因此，为自然资源部门的持续发展提供了关键要素。