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The European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange (ECURIE) is the European early notification system in the event of a radiological or nuclear emergency. The ECURIE system has two message types: an ''ECURIE Alert message'', which implies an emergency notification under Euratom and an ''ECURIE Information message'', which is a voluntary notification of smaller events and incidents. The possibility of sending ECURIE Information messages was introduced by the Commission in 2001. Since then, there have been more than 20 information messages.〔Answer of Andris Piebalgs to written question of Rebecca Harms of the European Parliament, ()〕 In 1987, the European Council mandated an early notification and information exchange system〔Council Decision of 14 December 1987 on Community arrangements for the early exchange of information in the event of a radiological emergency. (Journal L 371 , 30 December 1987 P. 0076 – 0078 ).〕 that:
All 28 EU Member States have signed the ECURIE agreement, as well as Switzerland and the Republic of Macedonia. Turkey and Iceland have also been invited.〔Agreement between the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and non-member States of the European Union on the participation of the latter in the Community arrangements for the early exchange of information in the event of radiological emergency (Ecurie) (Journal C 102 , 29 April 2003 P. 0002 – 0005 )〕 ECURIE is operated by the DG ENER of the European Commission with the Joint Research Centre responsible for technical development. ==Usage== * The first ever activation of the ECURIE (European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange) system was after a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) in the Krško Nuclear Power Plant in Slovenia on 4 June 2008. The power plant was safely shut down to a secure mode after a leak in the cooling circuit. According to the Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration (the country's nuclear watchdog agency), no radioactive release into the environment occurred and none was expected. The event did not affect employees, the nearby population or the environment.〔(Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration website )〕 Slovenian authorities immediately notified the proper international institutions, including the International Atomic Energy Agency and ECURIE. The EU then notified (through ECURIE) the remaining EU member states, issuing an EU-wide alert. Several news agencies around the world then reported on the incident.〔EU issues radiation alert after incident at Slovenian nuclear plant – (AFP )〕 According to Greenpeace such an EU-wide alert is very unusual.〔EU löst Atom-Alarm nach Zwischenfall in Slowenien aus – (AFP (german) )〕 Surprisingly, the Croatian authorities were not directly informed about the incident, although Croatia ''is'' part of the ECURIE system.〔(European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange (ECURIE) ) at the JRC〕 Many Croatians heard the news first through foreign media and expatriates.〔Bellona: (Croatia complains it was kept in the dark after Slovenian reactor incident, while others were told leak was an ‘exercise’ ), 05/06-2008〕 Krško is located a mere 15 km from the Croatian border. * After an iodine-131 release at the Belgian Institut national des Radio-Eléments in Fleurus, 29 August 2008.〔(ECURIE ALERT: Belgian nuclear authorities alert the Commission about measures taken after releases of radioactive iodine )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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