BOOSTER: Development of a toolbox for triage of large groups of individuals exposed to radioactive material

Vincent Schoepff (1) , Istvan Almasi (2) , Khalil Amgarou (3) , Frank Becker (4) , Frédérick Carrel (1) , Federico Carvajal (5) , David Gaboriau (6) , Mehdi Gmar (7) , Andras Kelemen (2) , Andras Kovacs (2) , Eva Kovacs-Szeles (2) , Hermine Lemaire (1) , Nabil Menaa (3) , David Mesterhazy (2) , Luc Morat (8) , Ciaran Morrison (6) , Israel Perez-Llopis (5) , Wolfgang Raskob (9) , Marie-France Robbe (7) , Sándor Szabó (10, 2) , Isabelle Testard (11) , Dmytro Trybushnyi (2) , Nicolas Ugolin (12) , Muriel Viau (12) , Arpad Vincze (13)

1 LCAE (CEA, LIST) - Laboratoire Capteurs et Architectures Electroniques (CEA, LIST)
2 MTA - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
3 CANBERRA France
4 KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
5 UPV - Universitat Politècnica de València = Universitad Politecnica de Valencia = Polytechnic University of Valencia
6 NUI Galway - National University of Ireland [Galway]
7 DM2I (CEA, LIST) - Département Métrologie Instrumentation & Information (CEA, LIST)
8 LRO - Laboratoire de Radiobiologie et Oncologie
9 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
10 BME - Budapest University of Technology and Economics [Budapest]
11 LCBM - UMR 5249 - Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux
12 IRCM - Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire
13 Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority

The effective management of an event involving the exposure of a large number of people to radioactive material requires a mechanism for fast triage of exposed people. BOOSTER is a project founded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme, addressing this requirement. It is a capability project designed to provide an integrated system which could easily be deployed and used. For this purpose, the BOOSTER consortium, relying on the expertise of seven members, researches and develops new approaches to allow an effective and fast management of most kind of nuclear threats. BOOSTER System was designed to help first responders mitigate the crisis by providing the necessary information to quickly assess the radiological situation, to support triage staff in performing an efficient and fast categorization of the potentially affected victims, and to give medical staff crucial information for further treatment at medium or long term post-accident.

Mots clés: radiological attack; nuclear accident; triage; Software; radiological situation; fission reactor accidents; radioactive pollution; instrumentation; nuclear instrumentation; Gamma imaging; radioactive waste; Biodosimetry; crisis management; Sensor; Contamination; Cameras; Pollution measurement; Resistors; Ionizing radiation; Radioactive materials; IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Decision making; Decision support systems; Dosimetry; Environmental monitoring; Gamma-ray cameras; Radiation instrumentation; Radiation monitoring; Safeguards applications; Security applications; Radioactive pollution; Radiation imaging systems; Miniature radiation cameras; Gamma-ray spectroscopy; Gamma-ray detectors; Dose rate

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]; Physique Nucléaire Expérimentale [nucl-ex]

Vincent Schoepff, Istvan Almasi, Khalil Amgarou, Frank Becker, Frédérick Carrel, et al.. BOOSTER: Development of a toolbox for triage of large groups of individuals exposed to radioactive material. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2014, 61 (4), pp.2210 - 2216. ⟨10.1109/TNS.2014.2311475⟩. ⟨hal-01863369⟩