Nuclear events and problems in siting procedures of nuclear plants poses problems of timely information and the question of proper and trustful information. This paper is divided into three parts. In ...the first part, the right to information and the Aarhus convention are analysed. The basic rights of the public in the field of environmental matters are presented and discussed. Such rights are also examined through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The second part deals with the problem of possible conflicts between the right to information (and environmental information) and obligations from NPT. The third part proposes some solutions to provide a balance between the obligation of giving information and the obligation of protecting certain information under the NPT.
What happens when radiological protection or nuclear safety officials get together with media professionals to talk about public communication on ionizing radiation risks? Do they have common views ...of the challenges and ways to meet these? This practical article reports on dialogue workshops organized by the EAGLE project in four European countries (France, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia). Common findings are classed and presented by themes, including inter alia: crisis versus everyday communication; mediated versus direct communication; sources, actors, roles and responsibilities; language and format; trust and confidence, balance in reporting and development of risk culture; nuclear industry promotion versus citizen-centered risk communication. The article also presents reflections from an expanded international workshop (RICOMET, June 2015). It echoes the participants in calling for a platform for ongoing dialogue between information sources and transmitters, in the interest of building solid relationships, risk culture and public understanding on ionizing radiation.
Functional relations between exocytotic vesicle membranes, plasmalemma and milk fat globule membranes (MFGM) were studied during the final stages of mouse mammary gland differentiation, in the gland ...during full lactation and in the postpartum gland in which the synthesis of secretory products was partly inhibited by application of 2-Br-alpha-ergocryptine. Analysis of ultrathin sections, freeze-fracture replicas, scanning electron microscopy and application of a cytochemical marker filipin showed that the apocrine secretion of lipid globules was closely related to the exocytosis of milk proteins. During the last days of gestation the secretion of lipid globules resulted from many exocytotic events of the secretory vesicles that accumulated and fused around the cytoplasmic lipid droplets. Seldom the lipid droplet protruded partly into the gland lumen and a part of its surface became covered with the apical plasmalemma. Although apical plasmalemma became more important in the formation of MFGM in the postpartum period, we could still confirm a direct contribution of secretory vesicle membranes to the final detachment of the lipid globule. The application of 2-Br-alpha-ergocryptine hindered the apocrine secretion of the lipid globules and a situation similar to the situation in the prepartum gland was observed.
