Predicting accidental release of engineered nanomaterials to the environment

Gottschalk, Fadri; Debray, Bruno; Klaessig, Fred; Park, Barry; Lacome, Jean-Mark; Vignes, Alexis; Pomar Portillo, Vicenç; Vázquez-Campos, Socorro; Ogilvie Hendren, Christine; Lofts, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3627-851X; Harrison, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8491-4720; Svendsen, Claus ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7281-647X; Kaegi, Ralf. 2023 Predicting accidental release of engineered nanomaterials to the environment. Nature Nanotechnology, 18. 412-418. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01290-2

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01290-2

Abstract/Summary

Challenges in distinguishing between natural and engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) and the lack of historical records on ENM accidents have hampered attempts to estimate the accidental release and associated environmental impacts of ENMs. Building on knowledge from the nuclear power industry, we provide an assessment of the likelihood of accidental release rates of ENMs within the next 10 and 30 years. We evaluate risk predictive methodology and compare the results with empirical evidence, which enables us to propose modelling approaches to estimate accidental release risk probabilities. Results from two independent modelling approaches based on either assigning 0.5% of reported accidents to ENM-releasing accidents (M1) or based on an evaluation of expert opinions (M2) correlate well and predict severe accidental release of 7% (M1) in the next 10 years and of 10% and 20% for M2 and M1, respectively, in the next 30 years. We discuss the relevance of these results in a regulatory context.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01290-2
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Pollution (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	1748-3395
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Additional Keywords:	environmental, health and safety issues, policy
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
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Date made live:	16 Nov 2023 11:48 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533949

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01290-2

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Pollution (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

1748-3395

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Publisher link (see Related URLs) provides a read-only full-text copy of the published paper.

Additional Keywords:

environmental, health and safety issues, policy