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In 1982, the European Economic Community has adopted a Directive on the prevention of major accidents of industrial activities (“SEVESO Directive”). In this frame, Public Authorities have namely to delineate “risk areas” and organise “external emergency planning”. For this purpose, the Southern Region of Belgium (Walloon Region) supports a multidisciplinary approach known as the “SEVEX Project” (SEVeso EXpert). The project results from the close co-operation of three Belgian university departments, each being involved in a specific part of the computation of data needed to assess the effects of a major industrial hazard. The determination of the source has been done by the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, the mesoscale wind field has been developped by the Université Catholique de Louvain, and the dispersion calculation was performed by the Université de l’Etat à Liège.
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Delvosalle, C. et al. (1994). Major industrial Hazards: The SEVEX Project - Source Terms and Dispersion Calculation in Complex Terrain. In: Gryning, SE., Millán, M.M. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application X. NATO · Challenges of Modern Society, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1817-4_39
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