Center for Integrated Risk Assessment

Introduction

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Center for Integrated Risk Assessment (CIRA) represents the unique ability to integrate assessments across disciplines to address the complexity of real-life problems. CIRA's research objectives range from basic science programs, which provide the foundation for developing and integrating methods, to those requiring determination of cause and prediction of consequences. CIRA is focused on DOE missions and the ORNL agenda to address energy, ecological systems, human health risk, transportation safety, and national security.

With technological advances of the last century creating a truly Global Society, there is great potential for wide-ranging ramifications of decisions and actions. An incident in one part of the world can have a dramatic impact on an international scale within days. Successful solutions demand consideration of a broad spectrum of issues before addressing issues of national and international magnitude. ORNL and CIRA can meet these challenges.

Documents

Please use this link to see a list of Fact Sheets and other documents available through this Web site. We also have a number of health risk-related documents available here.

For more details on our basic science and interdisciplinary assessment capabilities, select the appropriate area of the graphic. For links to other ORNL risk-related Web sites, please click here. For additional details on this Web site, please contact:

Po-Yung Lu
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1060 Commerce Park Drive
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
phone: (865) 574-7587
fax: (865) 241-0397
email: lupy@ornl.gov [top]