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