EU RESEARCH UNIT’S NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDIES IN GERMANY

BY MARK ROWE AS the debate about renewing nuclear power stations resonates throughout the UK, it can be easy to overlook the fact that nuclear engineering has important implications for research into environmental health. One of the key locations for this process is Europe's leading civil nuclear research laboratory, the Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU), in Karlsruhe, Germany. The ITU is one of seven institutes that in turn make up the Joint Research Centre (JRC), a research-based policy support organisation that is an integral part of the European ...


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