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Record W7135212923 · doi:10.17863/cam.128096

Development of ecocentric radiation protection: issues, challenges and approaches.

2025· article· en· W7135212923 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Carmel Mothersill, Rhea Desai, Frédéric Alonzo, Kentaro Ariyoshi, Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Clare Bradshaw, François Bréchignac, Soo Hyun Byun, Vinita Chauhan, Tom Cresswell, Hallvard Haanes, Nele Horemans, Orla Howe, Awadhesh N. Jha, Lawrence A. Kapustka, Amy MacIntosh, Deborah Oughton, Andrius Puzas, Paul N Schofield, Colin B Seymour, Knut Erik Tollefsen, Jordi Vives I Batlle, Michael D. Wood

Bibliographic record

VenueApollo (University of Cambridge) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicRadioactive contamination and transfer
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Nuclear Safety CommissionStrålsäkerhetsmyndigheten
KeywordsRadioecologyBiosecurityMindsetEcosystem servicesExploitFlexibility (engineering)EcosystemClimate changeLiving systems

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: This position paper results from an International Union of Radioecology symposium aimed at identifying challenges to develop eco-centric and holistic approaches to understanding ionizing radiation impacts on ecosystems. An ecosystem approach is particularly relevant today not only because of the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, which make single-stressor approaches unrealistic, but because of renewed interest in nuclear power as a potential solution to transition away from fossil fuels. For example, there are proposals to site small modular reactors in remote and pristine areas. The focus of the symposium was to expand the boundaries of existing approaches in radioecology and look at issues like ecosystem complexity and multiple stressors, which complicate single-stressor approaches. CONCLUSIONS: Discussion centered around existing tools for radiation protection e.g. Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) analysis, biomarkers, use of microcosms and mesocosms and modeling approaches. These approaches were discussed with emphasis on identifying gaps, boundaries, and where leaps into the unknown might be beneficial. Identified challenges with biomarker and AOP approaches were that the individual level is generally addressed while interrelatedness of ecosystem components is difficult to capture. Novel ideas suggested were to construct multiple-stressor AOPs which capture key interactions and consider time as a critical component, or to exploit 'ecological network analysis' metrics which have been extensively used in ecological science. Other discussions centered on complexity and chaos modeling. The use of microcosms, focused field studies, and harnessing ecosystem information and communication systems were suggested to bridge the gap between individual and population-level responses.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.985
Threshold uncertainty score0.260

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.190
Teacher spread0.164 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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