标题：30 years of European Commission Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring data bank (REMdb) – an open door to boost environmental radioactivity research
摘要：TheRadioactivity Environmental Monitoring data bank (REMdb) was created in theaftermath of the Chernobyl accident (1986) by the European Commission (EC) –Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (DG JRC), sited in Ispra (Italy).Since then it has been maintained there with the aim to keep a historicalrecord of the Chernobyl accident and to store the radioactivity monitoringdata gathered through the national environmental monitoring programs of themember states (MSs). The legal basis is the EuratomTreaty, Chapter III Health andSafety, Articles 35 and 36, which clarify that MSs shall periodicallycommunicate to the EC information on environmental radioactivity levels. Bycollecting and validating this information in REMdb, JRC supports the DG forEnergy in its responsibilities in returning qualified information to the MSs(competent authorities and general public) on the levels of radioactivecontamination of the various compartments of the environment (air, water,soil) on the European Union scale. REMdb accepts data on radionuclideconcentrations from EU MSs in both environmental samples and foodstuffs from1984 onwards. To date, the total number of data records stored in REMdbexceeds 5 million, in this way providing the scientific community with avaluable archive of environmental radioactivity topics in Europe. Recordsstored in REMdb are publicly accessible until 2011 through an unrestrictedrepository “REM data bank – Years 1984–2006”https://doi.org/10.2905/jrc-10117-10024 (De Cort et al., 2007) and “REM data bank –Years 2007–2011” https://doi.org/10.2905/de42f259-fafe-4329-9798-9d8fabb98de5 (DeCort et al., 2012). Access to data from 2012 onwards is granted only afterexplicit request, until the corresponding monitoring report is published.Each data record contains information describing the sampling circumstances(sampling type, begin and end time), measurement conditions (value, nuclide,apparatus, etc.), location and date of sampling, and original data reference.In this paper the scope, features and extension of REMdb are described indetail.
