The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has issued the following statement : 'A decision has been taken that the UK will leave Euratom. The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill will provide the Prime Minister with the power to trigger Article 50 in relation to Euratom. Leaving Euratom is a result of the decision to leave the EU as they are uniquely legally joined. The UK supports Euratom and will want to see…
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We are pleased to announce that Richard Wakeford, Editor of JRP, will be giving the 2017 Dunster Lecture during SRP's Annual Conference in Aberdeen. The Dunster Lecture will take place on Tuesday 16th May and will be entitled "What do we know about radiation risks?". Richard has been the Editor of JRP since 1997 and is an SRP Honorary Fellow. He studied at University of Liverpool obtaining his first degree in physics followed by a PhD in…
31st Jan 2017
Last night all the Society's Trustees had an introductory meeting with Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE QC at a special dinner at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London. Lord Carlile has recently accepted SRP's invitation to become the Society's first patron and will address delegates at the Annual Conference in Aberdeen in May. Front Row L to R: Pete Cole, Cathy Griffiths, Mike Wood, Amber Bannon, Lord Carlile, Claire-Louise Chapple, Mary…
25th Jan 2017
In light of the 2016 anniversaries of Chernobyl (30 years) and Fukushima (5 years) a special virtual issue of the Society's Journal (The Journal of Radiological Protection) has been published and is free to read until the end of March. It contains a selection of papers published in JRP on this subject; they have not been selected because they are judged to be necessarily the best scientifically, but they have been chosen by the Editorial Board…
6th Jan 2017