During nuclear or radiological emergency preparedness and response a processing pipelineis put in place at the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority to produceassessment reports of the current situation, its likely evolution with time, andrecommendations on protective actions. Within the processing pipeline raw data is more andmore refined towards these end products as experts, advisors, and decision makers collect,analyze, portray, annotate, filter, arrange and rearrange, share, approve or dismiss, andpublish content. Emergency procedures and guidelines assist and guide them through theprocess, as do information and communication technologies. The inner working of theprocessing pipeline is in constant flux as information and communication technologiesdevelop and allow better facilitation of the process, and as social and political demandschange. The present article describes the overall working of the pipeline, and how it hasrecently been improved by the KETALE collaborative software. The focus then shifts to thenew ICRP recommendations and how the new national emergency guidelines are planned to beimplemented within the KETALE software. The KETALE software has greatly increased thethroughput of our emergency processing pipeline and improved product quality.
