Descrizione del progetto
Un monitoraggio rivoluzionario della radioattività delle acque profonde
La mancanza di strumenti efficaci e su misura per il monitoraggio della radioattività degli ambienti marini rappresenta un sfida chiave. Sebbene vengano profusi sforzi collaborativi, è presente un divario tra gli strumenti disponibili per l’uso negli oceani e quelli impiegati per la terra e l’aria. Per affrontare questo problema, il progetto RAMONES, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di offrire una soluzione rivoluzionaria destinata alle piattaforme di strumentazione e rilevamento robotico per il monitoraggio della radioattività negli ecosistemi oceanici. Progetterà, svilupperà e convaliderà una nuova generazione di strumenti di rilevamento delle radiazioni che forniscano un’efficienza elevata e una risoluzione fine per gli studi di spettroscopia, nonché sensori e metodi d’avanguardia con l’obiettivo di creare strumenti subacquei per la misurazione della radiazione in luoghi estremi.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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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H2020-FETPROACT-2020-2
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
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