Description du projet
Un contrôle révolutionnaire de la radioactivité dans les eaux profondes
Le manque d’instruments efficaces et adéquats pour le contrôle de la radioactivité des environnements marins constitue un défi de taille. Bien que des efforts de collaboration aient été déployés, on constate toujours un écart au niveau de la disponibilité des instruments océanographiques et de ceux utilisés sur la terre et dans les airs. Pour combler cet écart, le projet RAMONES, financé par l’UE, entend proposer une solution de pointe en termes d’instrumentation et de plateformes robotiques de détection dédiée au contrôle de la radioactivité dans les écosystèmes océaniques. Il concevra, développera et validera une nouvelle génération d’instruments de détection des rayonnements qui offriront une efficacité et une résolution élevées pour les études spectroscopiques, ainsi que des capteurs et des méthodes de pointe qui permettront de créer des instruments sous-marins de mesure des rayonnements dans des sites extrêmes.
Objectif
Natural radioactivity in the marine environment has been present since the Earth’s formation, while artificial radionuclides were introduced into the oceans in 1944. More recent direct sources exist that feed the oceans, such as low-level liquid discharges from reprocessing plants, large-scale releases due to disasters (e.g. Fukushima hit by the tsunami in 2011), and smaller-scale radiological events. Exploration of submarine environments should consider the existence of radioactivity in terms of its short- and long-term impact on marine and coastal ecosystems, also in correlation to natural hazards, such as seismic activity over submarine faults. Significantly undersampled in oceans, radioactivity poses real risks to marine ecosystems and human population, urging for detailed, data-driven modelling.
RAMONES aims to offer new and efficient solutions for in situ, continuous, long-term monitoring of radioactivity in harsh subsea environments. A new generation of submarine radiation-sensing instruments, assisted by SoA robotic and artificial intelligence (AI) will be developed towards understanding radiation related risks near and far from coastal areas, while providing data towards shaping new policies and guidelines for environmental sustainability, economic growth and human health.
The main ambition is to lay a radical new path to close the existing marine radioactivity under-sampling gap and foster new interdisciplinary research in threatened natural deep-sea ecosystems. RAMONES will invest a significant effort to provide tools for long-term, rapid deployments, propose new AI-driven and supported methodologies, and offer scaled-up solutions to researchers, policy makers and communities. RAMONES will combine SoA equipment from various disciplines and advanced modelling in fine synergy, and design new and effective approaches for the marine environment to provide efficient response to natural and man-made hazards, shaping future policies for the global population.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographynatural disasters
- natural scienceschemical sciencesnuclear chemistryradiation chemistry
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemscoastal ecosystems
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