09/27/2024 | Press release | Archived content
The IAEA is launching a new four-year Coordinated Research Project (CRP) to identify novel and innovative low-cost environmental remediation technologies.
A key outcome of the project will be to emphasize the effectiveness of simple remediation approaches and need to prioritize the remediation of contaminated land. The project aims to enhance capability and strengthen the implementation of environmental remediation.
Many Member States have been impacted by radioactive contamination due to past activities, accidents, or as a result of naturally occurring sources that have contaminated the ground. Where contamination poses a risk to people and the environment, monitoring and/or remediation is necessary to break the pathway between the contaminant source and the receptors.
Limited resources are a key obstacle to remediation efforts. Hence, what is needed are safe, simple and sustainable solutions that balance cost, environmental impact, and social needs.
Novel or innovative remediation approaches provide an opportunity to make progress, address risks and enable reuse of land. A key challenge lies in scaling up new approaches to enable full-scale deployment. Hence, the project will focus on collating information and experience for remediation technologies at the demonstration and validation stage at the prototype scale (i.e. TLR[1] 5 to 7).
In the context of this CRP, research proposals will be solicited which are related to one or more of the following topics:
Please submit your Proposal for Research Contract or Agreement by email, no later than 15th November 2024, to the IAEA's Research Contracts Administration Section, using CRP ID 'T23016' and the appropriate template on the CRA web portal. Note that the same template can be used for both research contract and technical contract. The IAEA encourages institutes to involve, to the extent possible, women and young researchers in their proposals.
For further information related to this CRP, potential applicants should use the contact form under the CRP page.
[1] Technology readiness levels (TRL) are a measurement system used to assess the maturity level of a particular technology. TLR 1 to 3 related to lab-based research (e.g. bench scale experiments), TLR 4 to 7 relate to simulated world applications (e.g. prototypes) and TLR 8 to 9 demonstrate full scale applications.