Migration of RODOS to practical applicability

The report summarises the objectives and the results of the project "Migration of RODOS to practical applicability for supporting decisions in operational emergency response to nuclear accidents" (RODOS migration), EC contract No. FIKR-CT-2000-00077, from 1 October 2000 to 31 December 2003. RODOS, a real-time on-line decision support system for off-site nuclear emergency management, has been developed with support from the European Commission for more than a decade, and significant additional funds have been provided by many national RTD programmes, research institutes and industrial collaborators. The overall objective of this project was to enhance the operational versions of the RODOS system for supporting and increasing its broader acceptance and dissemination in Europe through an improved practical applicability in emergency centres with respect to: the reality of data network conditions, different categories of users both in emergency centres and remote, for a broad spectrum of release types, for different environmental conditions and characteristics, and for training and exercises. In this way, the resulting new RODOS versions lead to practicable improvements in providing the emergency management teams and those involved in decision making with fast, reliable, consistent and comprehensive information in case of a nuclear accident.